MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI) Competitors

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

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, ESP or MSI?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Empiric Student Property	£89.58M	6.94	£58.84M	£8.90	10.55
MS INTERNATIONAL	£107.14M	1.67	£11.24M	£71.74	15.71

Is ESP or MSI a better dividend stock?

Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 27.9% 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.

Which has more volatility & risk, ESP or MSI?

Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MS INTERNATIONAL has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ESP or MSI?

Empiric Student Property received 91 more outperform votes than MS INTERNATIONAL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 65.52% of users gave MS INTERNATIONAL an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Empiric Student Property	Outperform Votes 167 66.80%	Underperform Votes 83 33.20%
MS INTERNATIONAL	Outperform Votes 76 65.52%	Underperform Votes 40 34.48%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in ESP or MSI?

80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.8% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media favor ESP or MSI?

In the previous week, MS INTERNATIONAL had 1 more articles in the media than Empiric Student Property. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL and 0 mentions for Empiric Student Property. MS INTERNATIONAL's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Empiric Student Property's score of 0.00 indicating that MS INTERNATIONAL is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Empiric Student Property	Neutral
MS INTERNATIONAL	Neutral

Is ESP or MSI more profitable?

Empiric Student Property has a net margin of 65.69% compared to MS INTERNATIONAL's net margin of 10.49%. MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity of 24.42% beat Empiric Student Property's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Empiric Student Property	65.69%	7.23%	2.26%
MS INTERNATIONAL	10.49%	24.42%	8.03%

Summary

MS INTERNATIONAL beats Empiric Student Property on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.