BEKE vs. JLL, VAC, NMRK, EXPI, OPEN, MMI, REAX, RDFN, HOUS, and RMAX
Should you be buying KE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KE include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Newmark Group (NMRK), eXp World (EXPI), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Marcus & Millichap (MMI), Real Brokerage (REAX), Redfin (RDFN), Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS), and RE/MAX (RMAX). These companies are all part of the "real estate agents & managers" industry.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and KE (NYSE:BEKE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Jones Lang LaSalle presently has a consensus target price of $214.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.54%. KE has a consensus target price of $24.30, indicating a potential upside of 53.02%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KE is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KE has a beta of -0.72, meaning that its stock price is 172% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jones Lang LaSalle and Jones Lang LaSalle both had 7 articles in the media. Jones Lang LaSalle's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat KE's score of 0.66 indicating that KE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. Jones Lang LaSalle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of KE shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
KE has a net margin of 4.80% compared to KE's net margin of 1.42%. KE's return on equity of 6.55% beat Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity.
Jones Lang LaSalle received 410 more outperform votes than KE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.68% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 48.53% of users gave KE an outperform vote.
Summary
KE beats Jones Lang LaSalle on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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