UTG vs. BME, ETO, GLO, BRW, PFD, BOE, TRY, USA, NUM, and JPS
Should you be buying Unite Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unite Group include B&M European Value Retail (BME), Entertainment One (ETO), ContourGlobal (GLO), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Premier Foods (PFD), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Numis (NUM), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Unite Group vs.
Unite Group (LON:UTG) and B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Unite Group pays out 5,901.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. B&M European Value Retail pays out 4,166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. B&M European Value Retail is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Unite Group has a net margin of 76.10% compared to B&M European Value Retail's net margin of 6.69%. B&M European Value Retail's return on equity of 50.48% beat Unite Group's return on equity.
Unite Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,102.33, indicating a potential upside of 31.07%. B&M European Value Retail has a consensus price target of GBX 516, indicating a potential upside of 64.59%. Given B&M European Value Retail's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe B&M European Value Retail is more favorable than Unite Group.
81.1% of Unite Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Unite Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of B&M European Value Retail 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.
B&M European Value Retail has higher revenue and earnings than Unite Group. B&M European Value Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unite Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B&M European Value Retail received 400 more outperform votes than Unite Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.00% of users gave B&M European Value Retail an outperform vote while only 65.91% of users gave Unite Group an outperform vote.
Unite Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unite Group and Unite Group both had 4 articles in the media. B&M European Value Retail's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Unite Group's score of 0.64 indicating that B&M European Value Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
B&M European Value Retail beats Unite Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:UTG) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
