CLI vs. RGL, WKP, GPE, WHR, PCTN, CREI, IHR, LOK, MTVW, and LSL
Should you be buying CLS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CLS include Regional REIT (RGL), Workspace Group (WKP), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Warehouse REIT (WHR), Picton Property Income (PCTN), Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Mountview Estates (MTVW), and LSL Property Services (LSL). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Regional REIT (LON:RGL) and CLS (LON:CLI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
21.9% of Regional REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of CLS shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Regional REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.3% of CLS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CLS has a consensus price target of GBX 114, suggesting a potential upside of 37.35%. Given Regional REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CLS is more favorable than Regional REIT.
CLS received 194 more outperform votes than Regional REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.65% of users gave CLS an outperform vote while only 77.48% of users gave Regional REIT an outperform vote.
Regional REIT has a net margin of -73.42% compared to Regional REIT's net margin of -167.99%. CLS's return on equity of -19.03% beat Regional REIT's return on equity.
Regional REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CLS. Regional REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CLS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Regional REIT has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CLS has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Regional REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.8%. CLS pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Regional REIT pays out -3,846.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CLS pays out -1,269.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Regional REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, CLS's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Regional REIT'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
CLS beats Regional REIT on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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