UTG vs. ETO, BME, GLO, PFD, BRW, BOE, TRY, USA, NUM, and JPS
Should you be buying Unite Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unite Group include Entertainment One (ETO), B&M European Value Retail (BME), ContourGlobal (GLO), Premier Foods (PFD), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Numis (NUM), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Unite Group vs. Its Competitors
Unite Group (LON:UTG) and Entertainment One (LON:ETO) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Unite Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,205, indicating a potential upside of 96.57%. Given Unite Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Unite Group is more favorable than Entertainment One.
Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Entertainment One pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share. Unite Group pays out 53.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Entertainment One pays out -0.2% 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.
61.7% of Unite Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Unite Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Unite Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Entertainment One. Entertainment One is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unite Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Unite Group has a net margin of 79.68% compared to Entertainment One's net margin of 0.00%. Unite Group's return on equity of 6.45% beat Entertainment One's return on equity.
In the previous week, Unite Group had 6 more articles in the media than Entertainment One. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Unite Group and 0 mentions for Entertainment One. Unite Group's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Entertainment One's score of 0.00 indicating that Unite Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Unite Group beats Entertainment One on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:UTG) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
