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
Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap electronic equipment companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Spire Healthcare Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Empiric Student Property has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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 an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. 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. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
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.
42.7% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.6% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.2% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 294.33, indicating a potential upside of 41.51%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.
Summary
Spire Healthcare Group beats Empiric Student Property on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SPI) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff