SUPR vs. WKP, GPE, UKCM, SRE, PHP, AGR, ESP, HMSO, BCPT, and THRL
Should you be buying Supermarket Income REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Supermarket Income REIT include Workspace Group (WKP), Great Portland Estates (GPE), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Assura (AGR), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Hammerson (HMSO), Balanced Commercial Property (BCPT), and Target Healthcare REIT (THRL). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Workspace Group (LON:WKP) and Supermarket Income REIT (LON:SUPR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
70.7% of Workspace Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Supermarket Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Workspace Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Supermarket Income REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Workspace Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 691, indicating a potential upside of 34.83%. Supermarket Income REIT has a consensus price target of GBX 81, indicating a potential upside of 4.38%. Given Supermarket Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Workspace Group is more favorable than Supermarket Income REIT.
Workspace Group received 432 more outperform votes than Supermarket Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.19% of users gave Workspace Group an outperform vote while only 66.27% of users gave Supermarket Income REIT an outperform vote.
Supermarket Income REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Workspace Group. Supermarket Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workspace Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Workspace Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Supermarket Income REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Workspace Group pays out -2,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Supermarket Income REIT pays out -5,000.0% 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. Supermarket Income REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Workspace Group has a net margin of -121.30% compared to Workspace Group's net margin of -122.28%. Workspace Group's return on equity of -10.93% beat Supermarket Income REIT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Supermarket Income REIT had 8 more articles in the media than Workspace Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Supermarket Income REIT and 0 mentions for Workspace Group. Workspace Group's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Supermarket Income REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Supermarket Income REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Workspace Group has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Supermarket Income REIT has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Workspace Group beats Supermarket Income REIT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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