BEKE vs. JLL, ARE, INVH, SBAC, STT, BSBR, ERIE, KB, HBAN, and IRM
Should you be buying KE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KE include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Invitation Homes (INVH), SBA Communications (SBAC), State Street (STT), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), KB Financial Group (KB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), and Iron Mountain (IRM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and KE (NYSE:BEKE) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Jones Lang LaSalle currently has a consensus target price of $214.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.78%. KE has a consensus target price of $21.45, suggesting a potential upside of 10.17%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe KE is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
KE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. KE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jones Lang LaSalle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KE has a net margin of 7.62% compared to KE's net margin of 1.42%. Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity of 9.19% beat KE's return on equity.
94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of KE shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of KE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Jones Lang LaSalle received 411 more outperform votes than KE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.68% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave KE an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Jones Lang LaSalle had 2 more articles in the media than KE. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Jones Lang LaSalle and 8 mentions for KE. KE's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Jones Lang LaSalle's score of 0.93 indicating that Jones Lang LaSalle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KE has a beta of -0.77, meaning that its share price is 177% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Jones Lang LaSalle beats KE on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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