HMSO vs. SHC, SHB, NRR, CAL, INTU, LSR, ALNA, LAND, UTG, and BLND
Should you be buying Hammerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hammerson include Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Shaftesbury (SHB), NewRiver REIT (NRR), Capital & Regional (CAL), Intu Properties (INTU), Local Shopping REIT PLC (LSR.L) (LSR), Alina (ALNA), Land Securities Group (LAND), Unite Group (UTG), and British Land (BLND). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) and Hammerson (LON:HMSO) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Shaftesbury Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hammerson. Shaftesbury Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hammerson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hammerson received 526 more outperform votes than Shaftesbury Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Shaftesbury Capital an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Hammerson an outperform vote.
70.2% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Hammerson shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Hammerson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shaftesbury Capital has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hammerson has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hammerson had 2 more articles in the media than Shaftesbury Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hammerson and 1 mentions for Shaftesbury Capital. Shaftesbury Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Hammerson's score of 0.29 indicating that Shaftesbury Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shaftesbury Capital has a net margin of 16.37% compared to Hammerson's net margin of -246.59%. Shaftesbury Capital's return on equity of 1.05% beat Hammerson's return on equity.
Shaftesbury Capital currently has a consensus target price of GBX 165.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.67%. Hammerson has a consensus target price of GBX 32, suggesting a potential upside of 9.59%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Shaftesbury Capital is more favorable than Hammerson.
Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Hammerson pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Shaftesbury Capital pays out -7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hammerson pays out -20,000.0% 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. Hammerson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Hammerson beats Shaftesbury Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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