IWG (IWG) Competitors

IWG (LON:IWG) and Grainger (LON:GRI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of IWG or GRI?

41.6% of IWG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Grainger shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.3% of IWG shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Grainger 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 stronger earnings and valuation, IWG or GRI?

Grainger has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IWG. Grainger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IWG, 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
IWG	£2.76B	0.63	-£134.02M	-£13.45	-12.88
Grainger	£276.05M	5.63	-£1.11M	-£0.15	-1,403.33

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in IWG or GRI?

Grainger received 413 more outperform votes than IWG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.09% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
IWG	Outperform Votes 250 62.19%	Underperform Votes 152 37.81%
Grainger	Outperform Votes 663 78.09%	Underperform Votes 186 21.91%

Is IWG or GRI a better dividend stock?

IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. IWG pays out -7.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Grainger pays out -4,666.7% 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. Grainger is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts rate IWG or GRI?

Grainger has a consensus target price of GBX 317.50, suggesting a potential upside of 50.83%. Given Grainger's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grainger is more favorable than IWG.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
IWG	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Grainger	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is IWG or GRI more profitable?

Grainger has a net margin of -0.40% compared to IWG's net margin of -4.86%. Grainger's return on equity of -0.06% beat IWG's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
IWG	-4.86%	-356.38%	3.01%
Grainger	-0.40%	-0.06%	2.14%

Which has more risk & volatility, IWG or GRI?

IWG has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grainger has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer IWG or GRI?

In the previous week, IWG had 3 more articles in the media than Grainger. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for IWG and 0 mentions for Grainger. IWG's average media sentiment score of -0.24 beat Grainger's score of -0.40 indicating that IWG is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
IWG	Neutral
Grainger	Neutral

Summary

Grainger beats IWG on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.