Spirent Communications (SPT) Competitors

British Land (LON:BLND) and Spirent Communications (LON:SPT) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, BLND or SPT?

Spirent Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than British Land.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
British Land	£670M	5.34	-£1M	N/A	N/A
Spirent Communications	£447.70M	2.28	£13.30M	£0.02	8,915.00

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of BLND or SPT?

69.4% of British Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 124.2% of Spirent Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of British Land shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Spirent Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer BLND or SPT?

British Land presently has a consensus target price of GBX 448.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.23%. Spirent Communications has a consensus target price of GBX 236.80, suggesting a potential upside of 32.81%. Given Spirent Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spirent Communications is more favorable than British Land.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
British Land	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
Spirent Communications	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is BLND or SPT more profitable?

Spirent Communications has a net margin of 2.97% compared to British Land's net margin of -0.15%. Spirent Communications' return on equity of 3.56% beat British Land's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
British Land	-0.15%	0.02%	3.37%
Spirent Communications	2.97%	3.56%	2.77%

Is BLND or SPT a better dividend stock?

British Land pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Spirent Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Spirent Communications pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the media prefer BLND or SPT?

In the previous week, Spirent Communications had 3 more articles in the media than British Land. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Spirent Communications and 4 mentions for British Land. British Land's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Spirent Communications' score of 0.55 indicating that British Land is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
British Land	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Spirent Communications	1 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BLND or SPT?

British Land received 25 more outperform votes than Spirent Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave British Land an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave Spirent Communications an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
British Land	Outperform Votes 625 63.84%	Underperform Votes 354 36.16%
Spirent Communications	Outperform Votes 600 59.23%	Underperform Votes 413 40.77%

Which has more risk & volatility, BLND or SPT?

British Land has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirent Communications has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Spirent Communications beats British Land on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.