MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI) Competitors

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

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 24.42% beat Empiric Student Property's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MS INTERNATIONAL	10.49%	24.42%	8.03%
Empiric Student Property	65.69%	7.23%	2.26%

Do institutionals and insiders believe in MSI or ESP?

10.2% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by institutional investors. 56.8% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, MSI or ESP?

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

Which has stronger 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	£107.14M	1.49	£11.24M	£71.74	14.01
Empiric Student Property	£89.58M	6.33	£58.84M	£8.90	9.61

Does the MarketBeat Community favor 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%

Does the media refer more to MSI or ESP?

In the previous week, MS INTERNATIONAL and MS INTERNATIONAL both had 1 articles in the media. Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat MS INTERNATIONAL's score of 0.00 indicating that Empiric Student Property is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MS INTERNATIONAL	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Empiric Student Property	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

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 2.0%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 27.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% 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.

Summary

Empiric Student Property beats MS INTERNATIONAL on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.