SVS vs. IWG, GRI, SMP, MTVW, LOK, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, FOXT, and UAI
Should you be buying Savills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savills include IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), St. Modwen Properties (SMP), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), LSL Property Services (LSL), Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Foxtons Group (FOXT), and U and I Group (UAI). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
IWG (LON:IWG) and Savills (LON:SVS) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
Savills has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IWG. IWG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IWG has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savills has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Savills pays out 7,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
40.8% of IWG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Savills shares are held by institutional investors. 28.7% of IWG shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Savills shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, IWG had 8 more articles in the media than Savills. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for IWG and 1 mentions for Savills. IWG's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Savills' score of 0.24 indicating that Savills is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IWG presently has a consensus price target of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 17.74%. Given Savills' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe IWG is more favorable than Savills.
Savills has a net margin of 1.82% compared to Savills' net margin of -7.27%. IWG's return on equity of 5.07% beat Savills' return on equity.
IWG received 59 more outperform votes than Savills when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.
Summary
Savills beats IWG on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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