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 compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
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.
80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group 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.
Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% 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.
Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 35.14%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.
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.
In the previous week, Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Spire Healthcare Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Empiric Student Property and Spire Healthcare Group tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:SPI) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
