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Spire Healthcare Group (SPI) Competitors

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GBX 244 +8.50 (+3.61%)
As of 09/23/2025 12:31 PM Eastern

SPI vs. ESP, RTN, IPF, APH, MSI, SGM, BERI, MCP, 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), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), 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 business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

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£1.55B0.64£28.15M£0.055,304.35
Empiric Student Property£85.60M7.07£58.84M£0.042,118.60

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

Spire Healthcare Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 294.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.63%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, 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)
3 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

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%

In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 44 more articles in the media than Empiric Student Property. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for Empiric Student Property. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Empiric Student Property's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Spire Healthcare Group Neutral
Empiric Student Property Neutral

Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Empiric Student Property pays out 87.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

40.6% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by institutional investors. 39.2% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Spire Healthcare Group beats Empiric Student Property on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPI vs. The Competition

MetricSpire Healthcare GroupMedical Care Facilities IndustryMedical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£981.79M£1.54B£5.76B£2.57B
Dividend Yield0.93%3.82%5.53%5.33%
P/E Ratio5,304.35187.7276.435,405.27
Price / Sales0.6430.41473.6997,176.44
Price / Cash9.1212.3237.4627.93
Price / Book1.332.0113.619.12
Net Income£28.15M£58.06M£3.29B£5.89B
7 Day Performance17.31%-0.29%1.87%1.09%
1 Month Performance7.25%-0.82%4.03%3.03%
1 Year Performance4.72%33.26%77.41%193.34%

Spire Healthcare Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPI
Spire Healthcare Group
2.2446 of 5 stars
GBX 244
+3.6%
GBX 294.33
+20.6%
+4.5%£981.79M£1.55B5,304.35420High Trading Volume
ESP
Empiric Student Property
N/AGBX 90.30
+0.4%
N/A-7.8%£599.75M£85.60M2,100.00150
RTN
The Restaurant Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£499.23M£927M-1,080.0064,000
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 201
-0.2%
N/A+30.5%£440.42M£631.90M646.306,230
APH
Alliance Pharma
1.8149 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 1,410
+1.8%
N/A+39.6%£230.44M£117.50M1,620.69455
SGM
Sigma Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£181.35M£10.60M54.5948,300
BERI
BlackRock Energy and Resources
N/AGBX 128.90
+0.3%
N/A+14.7%£146.10M-£14.45M-1,023.02N/A
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
AMAT
Amati AIM VCT
N/AGBX 62
flat
N/A-21.5%£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 9/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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