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Unite Group (UTG) Competitors

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GBX 807 +5.00 (+0.62%)
As of 05:52 AM Eastern

UTG vs. ETO, BME, PFD, GLO, BRW, BOE, TRY, GLV, USA, and NUM

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), Premier Foods (PFD), ContourGlobal (GLO), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Glenveagh Properties (GLV), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), and Numis (NUM). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Unite Group vs. Its Competitors

Entertainment One (LON:ETO) and Unite Group (LON:UTG) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Entertainment OneN/A N/A N/A
Unite Group 79.68%6.45%2.50%

Unite Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,076, suggesting a potential upside of 33.33%. Given Unite Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Unite Group is more favorable than Entertainment One.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Entertainment One
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Unite Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Entertainment One pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share. Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Entertainment One pays out -0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unite Group pays out 58.0% 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.

81.1% of Unite Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Unite Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Unite Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Entertainment One£928.60M0.00N/A-£4.50N/A
Unite Group£375.54M10.43£299.23M£62.0913.00

In the previous week, Unite Group had 1 more articles in the media than Entertainment One. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Unite Group and 0 mentions for Entertainment One. Entertainment One's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Unite Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Entertainment One Neutral
Unite Group Neutral

Summary

Unite Group beats Entertainment One on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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UTG vs. The Competition

MetricUnite GroupREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£3.92B£1.03B£1.70B£3.01B
Dividend Yield4.13%6.26%6.25%5.02%
P/E Ratio13.007.6910.29159.73
Price / Sales10.43419.951,407.22301,032.89
Price / Cash38.03127.7866.7927.97
Price / Book0.820.751.314.59
Net Income£299.23M£51.66M-£120.13M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.41%-0.24%0.06%7.66%
1 Month Performance-2.45%-0.25%1.93%13.30%
1 Year Performance-14.38%-0.99%11.84%64.54%

Unite Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UTG
Unite Group
2.4631 of 5 stars
GBX 807
+0.6%
GBX 1,076
+33.3%
-14.9%£3.92B£375.54M13.001,801
ETO
Entertainment One
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.78B£928.60M-123.781,259
BME
B&M European Value Retail
3.6083 of 5 stars
GBX 266.80
-1.4%
GBX 457.75
+71.6%
-42.0%£2.69B£7.27B6.3839,484Positive News
PFD
Premier Foods
N/AGBX 193.60
-1.2%
GBX 240
+24.0%
+11.4%£1.67B£1.14B14.834,000
GLO
ContourGlobal
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£2.57B1,091.301,518High Trading Volume
BRW
Brewin Dolphin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.56B£415.46M3,029.412,186
BOE
Boeing
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.32B£70.54B-30.77156,000Gap Up
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 326
-0.8%
N/A-3.1%£1.04B£311.14M3.6526Positive News
GLV
Glenveagh Properties
N/AGBX 1.70
-2.7%
N/A+35.6%£945.47M£41.75B21.66502Gap Down
USA
Baillie Gifford US Growth
N/AGBX 251
+0.8%
N/A+23.3%£716.32M£89.99M8.52N/APositive News
NUM
Numis
N/AN/AN/AN/A£377.30M£130.31M17,150.00220

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This page (LON:UTG) was last updated on 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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