PHP vs. AGR, THRL, IHR, SRE, HMSO, GPE, WKP, SVS, SUPR, and UKCM
Should you be buying Primary Health Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primary Health Properties include Assura (AGR), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Hammerson (HMSO), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Workspace Group (WKP), Savills (SVS), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), and UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Primary Health Properties (LON:PHP) and Assura (LON:AGR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
62.7% of Primary Health Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Assura shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Primary Health Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Assura shares are owned 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.
Primary Health Properties presently has a consensus price target of GBX 102, suggesting a potential upside of 11.27%. Assura has a consensus price target of GBX 52, suggesting a potential upside of 25.66%. Given Assura's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Assura is more favorable than Primary Health Properties.
Assura received 39 more outperform votes than Primary Health Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.34% of users gave Assura an outperform vote while only 62.03% of users gave Primary Health Properties an outperform vote.
Primary Health Properties has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assura has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Primary Health Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Primary Health Properties pays out 35,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Assura pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Primary Health Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Assura. Assura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primary Health Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Assura had 1 more articles in the media than Primary Health Properties. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Assura and 0 mentions for Primary Health Properties. Assura's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Primary Health Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that Assura is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primary Health Properties has a net margin of 16.08% compared to Assura's net margin of -110.03%. Primary Health Properties' return on equity of 1.88% beat Assura's return on equity.
Summary
Primary Health Properties and Assura tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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