GRI vs. IWG, SVS, SAFE, BYG, DLN, HMSO, SRE, PHP, AGR, and SHC
Should you be buying Grainger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grainger include IWG (IWG), Savills (SVS), Safestore (SAFE), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Derwent London (DLN), Hammerson (HMSO), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Assura (AGR), and Shaftesbury Capital (SHC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
IWG (LON:IWG) and Grainger (LON:GRI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
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 2.6%. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Grainger pays out 23,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Grainger has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IWG. IWG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grainger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IWG currently has a consensus price target of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 13.28%. Grainger has a consensus price target of GBX 270, suggesting a potential upside of 1.31%. Given Grainger's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IWG is more favorable than Grainger.
39.0% of IWG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of Grainger shares are held by institutional investors. 28.9% of IWG shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grainger shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Grainger has a net margin of 9.58% compared to Grainger's net margin of -7.27%. IWG's return on equity of 1.31% beat Grainger's return on equity.
IWG has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grainger has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IWG had 1 more articles in the media than Grainger. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for IWG and 2 mentions for Grainger. IWG's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Grainger's score of 0.37 indicating that Grainger is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grainger received 410 more outperform votes than IWG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.01% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.
Summary
Grainger beats IWG on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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