Mountview Estates (MTVW) Competitors

Savills (LON:SVS) and Mountview Estates (LON:MTVW) 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, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in SVS or MTVW?

67.0% of Savills shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Savills shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 73.3% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by 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 earnings and valuation, SVS or MTVW?

Savills has higher revenue and earnings than Mountview Estates. Mountview Estates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savills, 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
Savills	£2.29B	0.61	£44.30M	£0.31	3,322.58
Mountview Estates	£79.47M	4.37	£28.42M	£7.29	1,222.22

Which has more risk and volatility, SVS or MTVW?

Savills has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mountview Estates has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor SVS or MTVW?

In the previous week, Savills had 1 more articles in the media than Mountview Estates. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Savills and 2 mentions for Mountview Estates. Mountview Estates' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Savills' score of 0.45 indicating that Mountview Estates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Savills	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Mountview Estates	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is SVS or MTVW more profitable?

Mountview Estates has a net margin of 35.76% compared to Savills' net margin of 1.93%. Mountview Estates' return on equity of 7.19% beat Savills' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Savills	1.93%	5.73%	2.01%
Mountview Estates	35.76%	7.19%	5.55%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SVS or MTVW?

Savills received 87 more outperform votes than Mountview Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote while only 47.71% of users gave Mountview Estates an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Savills	Outperform Votes 191 64.97%	Underperform Votes 103 35.03%
Mountview Estates	Outperform Votes 104 47.71%	Underperform Votes 114 52.29%

Is SVS or MTVW a better dividend stock?

Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Mountview Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 550 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Savills pays out 6,774.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mountview Estates pays out 7,544.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Savills beats Mountview Estates on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.