Ground Rents Income Fund (GRIO) Competitors

Palace Capital (LON:PCA) and Ground Rents Income Fund (LON:GRIO) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Do analysts prefer PCA or GRIO?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Palace Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Ground Rents Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is PCA or GRIO a better dividend stock?

Palace Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Ground Rents Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Palace Capital pays out -6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ground Rents Income Fund pays out -2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of PCA or GRIO?

82.7% of Palace Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.9% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.9% of Palace Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has better valuation & earnings, PCA or GRIO?

Ground Rents Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Palace Capital. Palace Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ground Rents Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Palace Capital	£19.60M	3.35	-£9.36M	-£0.24	-945.83
Ground Rents Income Fund	£5.72M	3.60	£3.31M	-£0.08	-269.38

Which has more volatility & risk, PCA or GRIO?

Palace Capital has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ground Rents Income Fund has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer PCA or GRIO?

In the previous week, Palace Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Ground Rents Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Palace Capital and 0 mentions for Ground Rents Income Fund. Palace Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ground Rents Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Palace Capital	Neutral
Ground Rents Income Fund	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PCA or GRIO?

Palace Capital received 39 more outperform votes than Ground Rents Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Ground Rents Income Fund an outperform vote while only 66.51% of users gave Palace Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Palace Capital	Outperform Votes 143 66.51%	Underperform Votes 72 33.49%
Ground Rents Income Fund	Outperform Votes 104 72.22%	Underperform Votes 40 27.78%

Is PCA or GRIO more profitable?

Ground Rents Income Fund has a net margin of 57.80% compared to Palace Capital's net margin of -47.77%. Ground Rents Income Fund's return on equity of 3.68% beat Palace Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Palace Capital	-47.77%	-8.28%	2.33%
Ground Rents Income Fund	57.80%	3.68%	1.71%

Summary

Palace Capital beats Ground Rents Income Fund on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.