IWG vs. GRI, SVS, SMP, MTVW, LOK, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, FOXT, and UAI
Should you be buying IWG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IWG include Grainger (GRI), Savills (SVS), 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.
Grainger (LON:GRI) and IWG (LON:IWG) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Grainger has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IWG.
Grainger has a net margin of -0.41% compared to Grainger's net margin of -7.27%. IWG's return on equity of -0.06% beat Grainger's return on equity.
Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
86.3% of Grainger shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of IWG shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grainger shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of IWG shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Grainger currently has a consensus target price of GBX 284.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.80%. IWG has a consensus target price of GBX 215, indicating a potential upside of 17.74%. Given Grainger's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IWG is more favorable than Grainger.
In the previous week, IWG had 5 more articles in the media than Grainger. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for IWG and 6 mentions for Grainger. Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat IWG's score of -0.49 indicating that IWG is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grainger has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IWG has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Grainger received 411 more outperform votes than IWG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.04% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.
Summary
Grainger beats IWG on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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