MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI) Competitors

MS INTERNATIONAL (LON:MSI) and Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MSI or ESP?

Empiric Student Property received 91 more outperform votes than MS INTERNATIONAL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 65.52% of users gave MS INTERNATIONAL an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MS INTERNATIONAL	Outperform Votes 76 65.52%	Underperform Votes 40 34.48%
Empiric Student Property	Outperform Votes 167 66.80%	Underperform Votes 83 33.20%

Is MSI or ESP more profitable?

Empiric Student Property has a net margin of 65.69% compared to MS INTERNATIONAL's net margin of 10.49%. MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity of 25.03% beat Empiric Student Property's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MS INTERNATIONAL	10.49%	25.03%	8.03%
Empiric Student Property	65.69%	7.32%	2.26%

Which has more volatility & risk, MSI or ESP?

MS INTERNATIONAL has a beta of 0.04, indicating that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is MSI or ESP a better dividend stock?

MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 2,985.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Empiric Student Property pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, MSI or ESP?

Empiric Student Property has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MS INTERNATIONAL. Empiric Student Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MS INTERNATIONAL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MS INTERNATIONAL	£109.58M	1.42	£11.50M	£0.67	1,451.34
Empiric Student Property	£81.60M	6.31	£53.60M	£0.09	947.78

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of MSI or ESP?

10.2% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.8% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media refer more to MSI or ESP?

In the previous week, Empiric Student Property had 4 more articles in the media than MS INTERNATIONAL. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Empiric Student Property and 0 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL. Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat MS INTERNATIONAL's score of 0.00 indicating that Empiric Student Property is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
MS INTERNATIONAL	Neutral
Empiric Student Property	Positive

Summary

Empiric Student Property beats MS INTERNATIONAL on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.