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Empiric Student Property (ESP) Competitors

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GBX 92.50 -1.40 (-1.49%)
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ESP vs. SPI, RTN, APH, IPF, SGM, MSI, MCP, BERI, AMAT, and INSG

Should you be buying Empiric Student Property stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empiric Student Property include Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Alliance Pharma (APH), International Personal Finance (IPF), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and Insig AI (INSG). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.

Empiric Student Property vs.

Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.

Empiric Student Property has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spire Healthcare Group. Empiric Student Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Empiric Student Property£89.58M6.84£58.84M£8.9010.39
Spire Healthcare Group£1.44B0.54£28.15M£7.0327.55

In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 3 more articles in the media than Empiric Student Property. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for Empiric Student Property. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Empiric Student Property's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Empiric Student Property Neutral
Spire Healthcare Group Neutral

Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Empiric Student Property has a net margin of 65.69% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of 1.96%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.23% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Empiric Student Property65.69% 7.23% 2.26%
Spire Healthcare Group 1.96%3.82%3.73%

Spire Healthcare Group received 189 more outperform votes than Empiric Student Property when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 60.96% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Empiric Student PropertyOutperform Votes
167
66.80%
Underperform Votes
83
33.20%
Spire Healthcare GroupOutperform Votes
356
60.96%
Underperform Votes
228
39.04%

80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 54.96%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Empiric Student Property
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Spire Healthcare Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Spire Healthcare Group beats Empiric Student Property on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ESP vs. The Competition

MetricEmpiric Student PropertyREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£612.73M£1.43B£1.59B£2.65B
Dividend Yield4.27%3.81%6.33%5.05%
P/E Ratio10.394.0110.28133.43
Price / Sales6.84247.461,470.95228,589.14
Price / Cash9.72107.6867.7828.02
Price / Book0.750.641.253.79
Net Income£58.84M£63.52M-£119.05M£5.88B
7 Day Performance1.91%0.26%-0.24%0.41%
1 Month Performance2.32%2.76%5.44%21.88%
1 Year Performance0.33%5.53%3.86%120.83%

Empiric Student Property Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESP
Empiric Student Property
N/AGBX 92.50
-1.5%
N/A+2.1%£612.73M£89.58M10.39150
SPI
Spire Healthcare Group
2.1079 of 5 stars
GBX 198.60
-0.5%
GBX 300
+51.1%
-23.7%£797.52M£1.44B28.27420
RTN
The Restaurant Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£499.23M£927M-1,080.0064,000
APH
Alliance Pharma
1.854 of 5 stars
GBX 64.70
flat
GBX 6,250
+9,560.0%
N/A£350.32M£183.50M-10.4391,000
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 155.20
-0.5%
N/A+38.6%£337.29M£695.42M7.526,230
SGM
Sigma Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£181.35M£10.60M54.5948,300
MSI
MS INTERNATIONAL
N/AGBX 1,108
-0.6%
N/A+15.0%£175.85M£107.14M15.45455
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
BERI
BlackRock Energy and Resources
N/AGBX 112
+1.4%
N/A-12.6%£132.84M£25.44M5.89N/APositive News
AMAT
Amati AIM VCT
N/AGBX 59
flat
N/AN/A£86.61M£-5,647,748.73-8.1133,000
INSG
Insig AI
N/AGBX 36.25
+0.7%
N/A+202.3%£42.68M£434,814.62-2.28410

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This page (LON:ESP) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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