PRSR vs. ESP, SOHO, HWG, SHED, MTVW, LOK, THRL, IHR, CREI, and CLI
Should you be buying Prs Reit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prs Reit include Empiric Student Property (ESP), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Harworth Group (HWG), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI), and CLS (CLI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Prs Reit (LON:PRSR) and Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Empiric Student Property has higher revenue and earnings than Prs Reit. Prs Reit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empiric Student Property, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prs Reit pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Prs Reit pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Empiric Student Property pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Prs Reit has a net margin of 85.41% compared to Empiric Student Property's net margin of 66.33%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.44% beat Prs Reit's return on equity.
Prs Reit has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Empiric Student Property received 83 more outperform votes than Prs Reit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 49.70% of users gave Prs Reit an outperform vote.
76.1% of Prs Reit shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Prs Reit shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Prs Reit presently has a consensus target price of GBX 114, suggesting a potential upside of 43.22%. Given Prs Reit's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Prs Reit is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.
In the previous week, Prs Reit had 1 more articles in the media than Empiric Student Property. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Prs Reit and 1 mentions for Empiric Student Property. Prs Reit's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Empiric Student Property's score of 0.59 indicating that Prs Reit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Prs Reit and Empiric Student Property tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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