GRI vs. IWG, SVS, SMP, MTVW, LOK, LSL, TPFG, HLCL, FOXT, and UAI
Should you be buying Grainger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grainger include IWG (IWG), Savills (SVS), St. Modwen Properties (SMP), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), LSL Property Services (LSL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Helical (HLCL), Foxtons Group (FOXT), and U and I Group (UAI). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
IWG (LON:IWG) and Grainger (LON:GRI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
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 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.
IWG has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grainger has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grainger has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IWG.
In the previous week, Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled IWG'saverage media sentiment score.
40.8% of IWG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.3% of Grainger shares are held by institutional investors. 28.7% of IWG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grainger shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
IWG presently has a consensus target price of GBX 215, indicating a potential upside of 21.47%. Grainger has a consensus target price of GBX 284.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.79%. Given Grainger's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IWG is more favorable than Grainger.
Summary
Grainger beats IWG on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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