FOR vs. CWK, UE, IIPR, GTY, KW, EFC, AHH, CRESY, FRPH, and FPH
Should you be buying Forestar Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forestar Group include Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Urban Edge Properties (UE), Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR), Getty Realty (GTY), Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Ellington Financial (EFC), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), FRP (FRPH), and Five Point (FPH). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Forestar Group vs.
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE:CWK) and Forestar Group (NYSE:FOR) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Cushman & Wakefield has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forestar Group has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cushman & Wakefield presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.97%. Forestar Group has a consensus target price of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 39.32%. Given Forestar Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Forestar Group is more favorable than Cushman & Wakefield.
In the previous week, Forestar Group had 3 more articles in the media than Cushman & Wakefield. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Forestar Group and 3 mentions for Cushman & Wakefield. Cushman & Wakefield's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Forestar Group's score of 0.39 indicating that Cushman & Wakefield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Forestar Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cushman & Wakefield. Forestar Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cushman & Wakefield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.6% of Cushman & Wakefield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.5% of Forestar Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Cushman & Wakefield shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Forestar Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forestar Group has a net margin of 13.48% compared to Cushman & Wakefield's net margin of 0.94%. Forestar Group's return on equity of 13.59% beat Cushman & Wakefield's return on equity.
Forestar Group received 18 more outperform votes than Cushman & Wakefield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.55% of users gave Cushman & Wakefield an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Forestar Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Forestar Group beats Cushman & Wakefield on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FOR) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
