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Spire Healthcare Group (SPI) Competitors

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GBX 226.98 +3.48 (+1.56%)
As of 07/3/2025 12:38 PM Eastern

SPI vs. ESP, RTN, IPF, APH, MSI, SGM, MCP, BERI, AMAT, and STM

Should you be buying Spire Healthcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spire Healthcare Group include Empiric Student Property (ESP), The Restaurant Group (RTN), International Personal Finance (IPF), Alliance Pharma (APH), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.

Spire Healthcare Group vs. Its Competitors

Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) and Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) are both small-cap electronic equipment companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Spire Healthcare Group£1.44B0.63£28.15M£7.0332.31
Empiric Student Property£89.58M7.45£58.84M£8.9011.32

50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by institutional investors. 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Empiric Student Property had 1 more articles in the media than Spire Healthcare Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Empiric Student Property and 0 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Empiric Student Property'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Spire Healthcare Group Neutral
Empiric Student Property Neutral

Empiric Student Property has a net margin of 65.69% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of 1.96%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.23% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Spire Healthcare Group1.96% 3.82% 3.73%
Empiric Student Property 65.69%7.23%2.26%

Spire Healthcare Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 32.17%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Spire Healthcare Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Empiric Student Property
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% 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.

Summary

Empiric Student Property beats Spire Healthcare Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SPI vs. The Competition

MetricSpire Healthcare GroupMedical Care Facilities IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£911.49M£1.58B£5.49B£2.97B
Dividend Yield0.01%4.04%5.38%5.02%
P/E Ratio32.317.1027.45146.59
Price / Sales0.6314.24407.33240,166.95
Price / Cash9.1212.3236.6327.97
Price / Book1.242.128.095.32
Net Income£28.15M£58.06M£3.17B£5.90B
7 Day Performance1.66%3.91%2.82%0.90%
1 Month Performance10.45%6.71%3.70%5.18%
1 Year Performance-4.23%56.26%35.42%80.75%

Spire Healthcare Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPI
Spire Healthcare Group
N/AGBX 226.98
+1.6%
GBX 300
+32.2%
-4.4%£911.49M£1.44B32.31420Gap Up
ESP
Empiric Student Property
N/AGBX 102.60
+1.0%
N/A+6.7%£679.63M£89.58M11.52150News Coverage
RTN
The Restaurant Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£499.23M£927M-1,080.0064,000
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 164.70
+2.6%
N/A+35.0%£357.93M£695.42M7.986,230High Trading Volume
APH
Alliance Pharma
2.1849 of 5 stars
GBX 64.70
flat
GBX 6,250
+9,560.0%
N/A£350.32M£183.50M-10.4391,000
MSI
MS INTERNATIONAL
N/AGBX 1,326
-2.9%
N/A+12.5%£210.45M£107.14M18.48455Earnings Report
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SGM
Sigma Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£181.35M£10.60M54.5948,300
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
BERI
BlackRock Energy and Resources
N/AGBX 112.02
-2.2%
N/A-1.3%£132.86M£25.44M5.89N/A
AMAT
Amati AIM VCT
N/AGBX 62
flat
N/A-24.4%£91.02M-£5.65M-8.5233,000
STM
STM Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£35.53M£30.06M3,075.0048,300

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This page (LON:SPI) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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