BEKE vs. JLL, VAC, NMRK, EXPI, OPEN, MMI, REAX, RDFN, HOUS, and RMAX
Should you be buying KE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KE include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Newmark Group (NMRK), eXp World (EXPI), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Marcus & Millichap (MMI), Real Brokerage (REAX), Redfin (RDFN), Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS), and RE/MAX (RMAX). These companies are all part of the "real estate agents & managers" industry.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and KE (NYSE:BEKE) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Jones Lang LaSalle received 410 more outperform votes than KE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.68% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 48.53% of users gave KE an outperform vote.
KE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. Jones Lang LaSalle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of KE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of KE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
KE has a net margin of 4.80% compared to KE's net margin of 1.42%. KE's return on equity of 6.55% beat Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity.
Jones Lang LaSalle currently has a consensus price target of $214.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.56%. KE has a consensus price target of $24.30, suggesting a potential upside of 42.02%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe KE is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KE has a beta of -0.77, meaning that its share price is 177% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jones Lang LaSalle and Jones Lang LaSalle both had 11 articles in the media. Jones Lang LaSalle's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat KE's score of 0.49 indicating that KE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
KE beats Jones Lang LaSalle on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BEKE 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 NYSE 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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