CBRE vs. JLL, KW, VTMX, FSV, TRNO, CIGI, IIPR, CWK, UE, and FOR
Should you be buying CBRE Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CBRE Group include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (VTMX), FirstService (FSV), Terreno Realty (TRNO), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Urban Edge Properties (UE), and Forestar Group (FOR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and CBRE Group (NYSE:CBRE) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Jones Lang LaSalle presently has a consensus target price of $214.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.47%. CBRE Group has a consensus target price of $99.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.20%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CBRE Group is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
In the previous week, Jones Lang LaSalle and Jones Lang LaSalle both had 8 articles in the media. Jones Lang LaSalle's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat CBRE Group's score of 0.21 indicating that CBRE Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CBRE Group has a net margin of 3.06% compared to CBRE Group's net margin of 1.42%. Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity of 12.96% beat CBRE Group's return on equity.
94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of CBRE Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of CBRE Group shares are owned 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.
CBRE Group received 3 more outperform votes than Jones Lang LaSalle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.68% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 68.09% of users gave CBRE Group an outperform vote.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CBRE Group has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CBRE Group has higher revenue and earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. CBRE Group 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.
Summary
CBRE Group beats Jones Lang LaSalle on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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