Picton Property Income (PCTN) Competitors

Picton Property Income (LON:PCTN) and Secure Income REIT (LON:SIR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Is PCTN or SIR more profitable?

Secure Income REIT has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Picton Property Income's net margin of -8.76%. Secure Income REIT's return on equity of 0.00% beat Picton Property Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Picton Property Income	-8.76%	-0.89%	2.49%
Secure Income REIT	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend PCTN or SIR?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Picton Property Income	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Secure Income REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Do institutionals & insiders believe in PCTN or SIR?

73.6% of Picton Property Income shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Picton Property Income shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PCTN or SIR?

Picton Property Income received 19 more outperform votes than Secure Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.13% of users gave Picton Property Income an outperform vote while only 68.90% of users gave Secure Income REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Picton Property Income	Outperform Votes 132 72.13%	Underperform Votes 51 27.87%
Secure Income REIT	Outperform Votes 113 68.90%	Underperform Votes 51 31.10%

Is PCTN or SIR a better dividend stock?

Picton Property Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Secure Income REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Picton Property Income pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Secure Income REIT pays out 24.5% 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. Picton Property Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to PCTN or SIR?

In the previous week, Picton Property Income had 1 more articles in the media than Secure Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Picton Property Income and 0 mentions for Secure Income REIT. Picton Property Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Secure Income REIT'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Picton Property Income	Neutral
Secure Income REIT	Neutral

Which has higher valuation & earnings, PCTN or SIR?

Secure Income REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Picton Property Income. Picton Property Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Income REIT, 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
Picton Property Income	£54.69M	7.61	-£4.79M	-£0.01	-7,622.40
Secure Income REIT	£122.40M	12.20	N/A	£0.62	743.55

Summary

Picton Property Income beats Secure Income REIT on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.