PLAZ vs. SPDI, FLK, CRC, PURP, FCPT, STE, IWG, GRI, SVS, and SMP
Should you be buying Plaza Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plaza Centers include Secure Property Development & Investment (SPDI), Fletcher King (FLK), Circle Property (CRC), Purplebricks Group (PURP), F&C Commercial Property Trust (FCPT), Stewart & Wight (STE), IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), Savills (SVS), and St. Modwen Properties (SMP). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
Plaza Centers vs.
Plaza Centers (LON:PLAZ) and Secure Property Development & Investment (LON:SPDI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Plaza Centers has a beta of -0.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Property Development & Investment has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Property Development & Investment received 19 more outperform votes than Plaza Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.87% of users gave Plaza Centers an outperform vote while only 70.09% of users gave Secure Property Development & Investment an outperform vote.
Secure Property Development & Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Plaza Centers. Plaza Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Property Development & Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Secure Property Development & Investment has a net margin of 224.30% compared to Plaza Centers' net margin of -168,692.86%. Secure Property Development & Investment's return on equity of 39.27% beat Plaza Centers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Plaza Centers had 2 more articles in the media than Secure Property Development & Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Plaza Centers and 0 mentions for Secure Property Development & Investment. Plaza Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Secure Property Development & Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Plaza Centers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
26.3% of Plaza Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Secure Property Development & Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.5% of Plaza Centers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 62.8% of Secure Property Development & Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Secure Property Development & Investment beats Plaza Centers on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PLAZ) was last updated on 3/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
