IWG vs. GRI, SVS, SAFE, BYG, DLN, HMSO, SRE, PHP, AGR, and SHC
Should you be buying IWG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IWG include Grainger (GRI), 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 companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
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 2.7%. 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.
Grainger has a net margin of 9.58% compared to IWG's net margin of -7.27%. Grainger's return on equity of 1.31% beat IWG's return on equity.
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.
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, Grainger had 3 more articles in the media than IWG. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Grainger and 2 mentions for IWG. Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat IWG's score of -0.06 indicating that Grainger is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.0% of IWG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
IWG presently has a consensus target price of GBX 215, indicating a potential upside of 15.47%. Grainger has a consensus target price of GBX 270, indicating a potential upside of 4.25%. Given IWG's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe IWG is more favorable than Grainger.
Summary
Grainger beats IWG on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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