HMSO vs. SHC, SHB, SUPR, NRR, CAL, INTU, LSR, ALNA, LAND, and UTG
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), Land Securities Group (LAND), and Unite Group (UTG). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Hammerson vs.
Hammerson (LON:HMSO) and Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Shaftesbury Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 174, indicating a potential upside of 38.98%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Shaftesbury Capital is more favorable than Hammerson.
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.
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.
677.7% of Hammerson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 77.2% of Hammerson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Shaftesbury Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Hammerson. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Shaftesbury Capital and 0 mentions for Hammerson. Hammerson's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Shaftesbury Capital'saverage media sentiment score.
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.
Hammerson has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shaftesbury Capital has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hammerson pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Hammerson pays out -273.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Shaftesbury Capital beats Hammerson on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:HMSO) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
