SVS vs. IWG, GRI, HMSO, SAFE, SRE, PHP, AGR, WKP, GPE, and SUPR
Should you be buying Savills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savills include IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), Hammerson (HMSO), Safestore (SAFE), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Assura (AGR), Workspace Group (WKP), Great Portland Estates (GPE), and Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Savills (LON:SVS) and IWG (LON:IWG) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Savills pays out 7,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
IWG has a consensus price target of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 5.08%. Given IWG's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IWG is more favorable than Savills.
IWG received 59 more outperform votes than Savills when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.
66.2% of Savills shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of IWG shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Savills shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of IWG shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Savills has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IWG has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IWG had 2 more articles in the media than Savills. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for IWG and 1 mentions for Savills. IWG's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Savills' score of 0.00 indicating that IWG is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Savills has a net margin of 1.82% compared to IWG's net margin of -7.27%. Savills' return on equity of 5.07% beat IWG's return on equity.
Savills has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IWG. IWG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IWG beats Savills on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SVS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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