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Is Great Portland Estates (LSE:GPE) Undervalued On Strong Leasing And Pre Let Demand?

Simply Wall St · 2d ago

Great Portland Estates (LSE:GPE) is back in focus after reporting first half leasing activity that generated £19.0m in annual rent, alongside the fully pre let completion of its 30 Duke Street St James’s project.

For investors watching the tape, Great Portland Estates has seen momentum pick up, with a 7.58% 7-day share price return and an 8.74% 30-day share price return, even though the 1-year total shareholder return is slightly down 1.24% and the 5-year total shareholder return is down 40%.

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After that sharp short term bounce and a 5 year record that still shows deep losses, the real question on Great Portland Estates now is whether most of the upside is already in the price or still ahead.

Preferred P/E of 8.5x: Is it justified?

Valuation for Great Portland Estates right now revolves around a relatively low P/E of 8.5x set against its recent share price recovery.

The P/E ratio compares what investors pay per share with the earnings that Great Portland Estates generates per share. For property owners and REIT style businesses, this measure helps you see how much the market is charging for each pound of underlying profit.

Here the comparison is blunt. Great Portland Estates trades on a P/E of 8.5x while the estimated fair P/E sits at 12.4x. Against peers it is also on a lower multiple, with the UK market on 16.2x, the UK Office REITs peer group on 28.1x and the global Office REITs average on 17.4x. That gap suggests the market is assigning a cheaper price to GPE's current earnings than both the fair ratio points to and what investors are paying elsewhere.

Explore the SWS fair ratio for Great Portland Estates.

Result: Price-to-earnings of 8.5x (UNDERVALUED)

Still, the 5 year shareholder return remains deeply negative, and Great Portland Estates is heavily focused on a single, highly cyclical London market, which can quickly shift sentiment.

Find out about the key risks to this Great Portland Estates narrative.

Another view on Great Portland Estates valuation

On a simple earnings multiple, Great Portland Estates looks cheap. The picture shifts when using the SWS DCF model, which puts future cash flow value at £0.87 per share against a market price around £3.24, implying the stock screens as expensive on that framework.

This clash between an 8.5x P/E that screens as attractive and a DCF output that points to overvaluation raises a practical question: which yardstick do you trust more when the cash flow model and the earnings multiple point in opposite directions for the same company?

Look into how the SWS DCF model arrives at its fair value.

GPE Discounted Cash Flow as at Oct 2026
GPE Discounted Cash Flow as at Oct 2026

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