UNITE Group (UTGPF) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Unite Students is the UK's largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation serving the country's world-leading Higher Education sector. Following our successful £1.4bn acquisition of Liberty Living's UK assets in November 2019, we now provide homes to 76,000 students across 177 properties in 27 leading university towns and cities. Our people are driven by a common purpose: to provide a 'Home for Success' for the students who live with us and to be the most trusted brand in the sector. We do this through quality service, quality people and quality properties, all designed on the basis of an excellent insight into students' needs and preferences. Unite's accommodation is high quality, affordable, safe and secure, and located where students want to live. Students live predominantly in en-suite study bedrooms with rents covering all bills, insurance, 24-hour security and high-speed Wi-Fi. MyUnite, our mobile app, provides practical support such as instant messaging and maintenance requests. We hold a five-star British Safety Council audit rating (out of five) following an Occupational Health and Safety audit. The audit measured our performance against a number of key safety management indicators, providing an international benchmark for safety management systems and indicating best practice for continual improvement. Our commitment to customer service is powered by an innovative, in-house operating platform. It provides a wide range of benefits to our students, such as an optimised online booking process, as well as providing us with a unique ability to drive value from our portfolio through scale efficiencies and revenue management. Our other strategic priority is delivering growing and sustainable earnings, underpinned by a strong capital structure. A key part of this strategy is growing the number of beds let through partnerships with the strongest UK universities which are experiencing record levels of student demand. We currently partner with 60 universities across the UK, guaranteeing that 52% of our rooms are let under 'nomination agreements' providing high visibility of forward occupancy and rental growth. Unite Students has spent years helping young people thrive in new situations and help them manage the big Â'Leap' to university life. Our insight has identified a significant gap between student expectations and reality. To support this leap, we have developed the Leapskills programme, helping to prepare prospective students for independent living. The programme introduces students to a number of student life scenarios to provoke group discussion on conflict resolution, problem solving and gives a general insight into shared living to help closer match expectations to reality. Unite is the founder of and major donor to the Unite Foundation, a charitable trust established to support talented students facing challenging financial circumstances through the provision of free accommodation scholarships. The Foundation has so far provided scholarships for 434 young people working in close collaboration with 27 partner universities. Unite is invested in and operates two specialist funds and joint ventures with institutional investment partners: the £3 billion Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF), and the £1 billion London Student Accommodation Vehicle (LSAV). Founded in 1991 in Bristol, Unite Group is an award-winning Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $6.35 to $6.35
• 50-Day Range: $6.08 to $6.90
• 52-Week Range: $6.08 to $11.90
• Volume: 23,267 shs
• Average Volume: 1,741 shs
• Market Capitalization: $3.10 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

UNITE Group Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

UNITE Group scored higher than 16% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

UNITE Group has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.60, and is based on 1 strong buy rating, 1 buy rating, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

UNITE Group has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 1.75%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for UNITE Group are expected to grow by 1.75% in the coming year, from $0.57 to $0.58 per share.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

UNITE Group has a P/B Ratio of 0.50. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 1.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

0.07% of the float of UNITE Group has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

UNITE Group has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 184.77, which indicates bearish sentiment.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in UNITE Group has recently increased by 1,562.60%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

UNITE Group does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

UNITE Group does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

News Sentiment

UNITE Group has a news sentiment score of -1.00. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.73 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 1 news article for UNITE Group this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: N/A
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, UNITE Group insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Institutions

UNITE Group has minimal institutional ownership at this time.

Company Calendar

• Today: 5/14/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 7/28/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: OTCMKTS
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: REAL ESTATE OPS
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: OTCMKTS:UTGPF
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.unite-group.co.uk
• Phone: 44-11-7302-7000
• Fax: 44-11-7302-7400
• Employees: 1,917
• Year Founded: N/A

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): N/A
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: N/A
• Net Margins: N/A
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: N/A
• Return on Assets: N/A

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.27
• Current Ratio: 0.75
• Quick Ratio: 0.75

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $438.80 million
• Price / Sales: 7.07
• Cash Flow: $0.65 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 9.84
• Book Value: $12.77 per share
• Price / Book: 0.50

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 488,790,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: $3.10 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.63