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Great Portland Estates (GPE) Competitors

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GBX 320 -9.50 (-2.88%)
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GPE vs. DLN, WKP, CLI, RGL, LAND, BLND, UTG, LMP, BBOX, and SHC

Should you be buying Great Portland Estates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Portland Estates include Derwent London (DLN), Workspace Group (WKP), CLS (CLI), Regional REIT (RGL), Land Securities Group (LAND), British Land (BLND), Unite Group (UTG), LondonMetric Property (LMP), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), and Shaftesbury Capital (SHC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.

Great Portland Estates vs.

Great Portland Estates (LON:GPE) and Derwent London (LON:DLN) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Great Portland Estates has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Derwent London has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Great Portland Estates presently has a consensus target price of GBX 374, suggesting a potential upside of 16.15%. Derwent London has a consensus target price of GBX 2,700, suggesting a potential upside of 42.86%. Given Derwent London's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Derwent London is more favorable than Great Portland Estates.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Great Portland Estates
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Derwent London
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Great Portland Estates and Great Portland Estates both had 1 articles in the media. Derwent London's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Great Portland Estates' score of 0.90 indicating that Derwent London is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Great Portland Estates Positive
Derwent London Positive

Great Portland Estates has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Derwent London. Derwent London is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Portland Estates, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Great Portland Estates£230.33M5.60£398.10M£100.403.21
Derwent London£277.67M7.62-£359.76M-£322.32-5.86

Great Portland Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Derwent London pays an annual dividend of GBX 80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Great Portland Estates pays out 12.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Derwent London pays out -24.8% 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. Derwent London is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

76.1% of Great Portland Estates shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Derwent London shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Great Portland Estates shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Derwent London shares are held 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.

Great Portland Estates has a net margin of 172.83% compared to Derwent London's net margin of -129.56%. Great Portland Estates' return on equity of 15.50% beat Derwent London's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Great Portland Estates172.83% 15.50% 0.79%
Derwent London -129.56%-10.41%1.96%

Derwent London received 374 more outperform votes than Great Portland Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.33% of users gave Great Portland Estates an outperform vote while only 51.53% of users gave Derwent London an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Great Portland EstatesOutperform Votes
14
58.33%
Underperform Votes
10
41.67%
Derwent LondonOutperform Votes
388
51.53%
Underperform Votes
365
48.47%

Summary

Derwent London beats Great Portland Estates on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GPE vs. The Competition

MetricGreat Portland EstatesREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.29B£734.51M£1.58B£2.63B
Dividend Yield3.72%12.57%6.37%5.05%
P/E Ratio3.211.5510.24134.99
Price / Sales5.60181.631,461.04224,419.26
Price / Cash185.0063.0767.7828.03
Price / Book0.510.421.253.80
Net Income£398.10M-£181.49M-£117.53M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-5.43%-1.40%-0.46%0.38%
1 Month Performance5.23%3.28%5.14%21.44%
1 Year Performance-22.78%3.74%4.41%129.76%

Great Portland Estates Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GPE
Great Portland Estates
2.9281 of 5 stars
GBX 320
-2.9%
GBX 374
+16.9%
-22.0%£1.28B£230.33M3.19134Positive News
Earnings Report
DLN
Derwent London
3.3953 of 5 stars
GBX 1,924
-3.5%
GBX 2,700
+40.3%
-16.3%£2.15B£277.67M-5.97199
WKP
Workspace Group
2.9721 of 5 stars
GBX 444.90
-0.7%
GBX 700
+57.3%
-23.6%£854.13M£184.50M-4.44293Dividend Cut
CLI
CLS
2.5091 of 5 stars
GBX 60
-2.3%
GBX 114
+90.0%
-31.9%£239.09M£154.62M-1.16118News Coverage
RGL
Regional REIT
N/AGBX 117.60
-1.5%
N/A+365.2%£190.09M£287.40M-0.73N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
LAND
Land Securities Group
1.6103 of 5 stars
GBX 591.12
-0.9%
GBX 651.50
+10.2%
-8.8%£4.38B£823.49M-13.71598Earnings Report
BLND
British Land
3.128 of 5 stars
GBX 393.98
-1.1%
GBX 470
+19.3%
-3.5%£3.93B£533.92M4.281,690News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
UTG
Unite Group
2.246 of 5 stars
GBX 809
-1.6%
GBX 1,076
+33.0%
-14.6%£3.93B£375.54M13.031,801
LMP
LondonMetric Property
2.8667 of 5 stars
GBX 187.80
-1.2%
GBX 251
+33.7%
-4.3%£3.82B£294.22M19.3335News Coverage
Earnings Report
BBOX
Tritax Big Box REIT
2.4494 of 5 stars
GBX 140.70
-0.8%
GBX 185.33
+31.7%
-12.9%£3.49B£313.39M18.40N/ANews Coverage
SHC
Shaftesbury Capital
1.7883 of 5 stars
GBX 139.59
-0.1%
GBX 174
+24.7%
+1.1%£2.70B£241.46M67.913,000News Coverage

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This page (LON:GPE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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