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Hammerson (HMSO) Competitors

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GBX 251.15 -1.25 (-0.50%)
As of 04/17/2025 11:56 AM Eastern

HMSO vs. SHC, SHB, SUPR, NRR, CAL, INTU, LSR, ALNA, UTG, and LAND

Should you be buying Hammerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hammerson include Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Shaftesbury (SHB), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), NewRiver REIT (NRR), Capital & Regional (CAL), Intu Properties (INTU), Local Shopping REIT PLC (LSR.L) (LSR), Alina (ALNA), Unite Group (UTG), and Land Securities Group (LAND). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.

Hammerson vs.

Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) and Hammerson (LON:HMSO) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

68.3% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 677.7% of Hammerson shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 77.2% of Hammerson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Shaftesbury Capital has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hammerson has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Shaftesbury Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Hammerson'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Shaftesbury Capital Neutral
Hammerson Neutral

Shaftesbury Capital currently has a consensus target price of GBX 174, indicating a potential upside of 34.95%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Shaftesbury Capital is more favorable than Hammerson.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shaftesbury Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Hammerson
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Shaftesbury Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Hammerson. Hammerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shaftesbury Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shaftesbury Capital£241.46M10.34£39.54M£2.0662.72
Hammerson£7.74M158.54-£26.82M-£5.48-45.81

Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hammerson pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Shaftesbury Capital pays out 145.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hammerson pays out -273.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hammerson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Shaftesbury Capital has a net margin of 16.37% compared to Hammerson's net margin of -346.30%. Shaftesbury Capital's return on equity of 1.07% beat Hammerson's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shaftesbury Capital16.37% 1.07% 1.52%
Hammerson -346.30%-25.94%2.13%

Hammerson received 526 more outperform votes than Shaftesbury Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Shaftesbury Capital an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Hammerson an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Shaftesbury CapitalOutperform Votes
6
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
HammersonOutperform Votes
532
57.58%
Underperform Votes
392
42.42%

Summary

Shaftesbury Capital beats Hammerson on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HMSO vs. The Competition

MetricHammersonREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.23B£2.28B£1.57B£2.52B
Dividend Yield0.01%5.48%6.69%4.80%
P/E Ratio-45.8110.789.31130.99
Price / Sales158.541,649.37382.41234,951.35
Price / Cash2.76124.0367.9628.35
Price / Book13.602.081.204.43
Net Income-£26.82M£97.74M-£118.14M£5.88B
7 Day Performance7.24%3.97%2.89%2.87%
1 Month Performance-1.43%1.24%-1.04%-0.96%
1 Year Performance841.34%32.90%3.33%22.28%

Hammerson Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HMSO
Hammerson
N/AGBX 251.15
-0.5%
N/A+841.3%£1.23B£7.74M-45.81164Gap Up
SHC
Shaftesbury Capital
N/AGBX 126.45
+2.6%
GBX 174
+37.6%
-3.2%£2.45B£241.46M61.513,000
SHB
Shaftesbury
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.62B£123.10M1,277.5839Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SUPR
Supermarket Income REIT
N/AGBX 78.40
+1.2%
N/A+9.6%£976.91M£107.21M-46.12N/ANews Coverage
NRR
NewRiver REIT
N/AGBX 69.60
+2.7%
N/A-0.8%£332.05M£110.63M72.4846
CAL
Capital & Regional
1.911 of 5 stars
N/AGBX 75
+∞
N/A£145.13M£65M3,330.009,200News Coverage
INTU
Intu Properties
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.07M£548.50M-0.0117,300News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LSR
Local Shopping REIT PLC (LSR.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.61M£534,000.00-203.00N/A
ALNA
Alina
N/AGBX 7
-6.7%
N/AN/A£1.59M£415,000.00-140.001Gap Down
UTG
Unite Group
2.8263 of 5 stars
GBX 863.50
+3.4%
GBX 1,076
+24.6%
-6.3%£4.19B£375.54M13.911,801News Coverage
LAND
Land Securities Group
1.6746 of 5 stars
GBX 551.62
+1.7%
GBX 677.67
+22.9%
-9.1%£4.08B£823.49M-12.79598

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This page (LON:HMSO) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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