Real Estate Investors (RLE) Competitors

Real Estate Investors (LON:RLE) and CT Property Trust (LON:CTPT) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Which has more volatility and risk, RLE or CTPT?

Real Estate Investors has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CT Property Trust has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better valuation and earnings, RLE or CTPT?

Real Estate Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CT Property Trust. Real Estate Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CT Property Trust, 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
Real Estate Investors	£11.06M	4.77	-£11.83M	-£6.78	-4.46
CT Property Trust	£18.76M	0.00	-£53.48M	-£0.23	N/A

Is RLE or CTPT more profitable?

Real Estate Investors has a net margin of -106.92% compared to CT Property Trust's net margin of -285.08%. Real Estate Investors' return on equity of -12.67% beat CT Property Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Real Estate Investors	-106.92%	-12.67%	2.46%
CT Property Trust	-285.08%	-20.86%	2.58%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of RLE or CTPT?

51.4% of Real Estate Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of CT Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of Real Estate Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of CT Property Trust shares are owned 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.

Is RLE or CTPT a better dividend stock?

Real Estate Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. CT Property Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share. Real Estate Investors pays out -29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CT Property Trust pays out -1,739.1% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor RLE or CTPT?

Real Estate Investors received 280 more outperform votes than CT Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Real Estate Investors	Outperform Votes 280 86.15%	Underperform Votes 45 13.85%
CT Property Trust	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to RLE or CTPT?

In the previous week, Real Estate Investors had 8 more articles in the media than CT Property Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Real Estate Investors and 0 mentions for CT Property Trust. Real Estate Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat CT Property Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Real Estate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Real Estate Investors	Neutral
CT Property Trust	Neutral

Summary

Real Estate Investors beats CT Property Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.