GRI vs. IWG, SVS, BYG, SAFE, 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), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Safestore (SAFE), 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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
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.
IWG has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grainger has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
In the previous week, IWG had 3 more articles in the media than Grainger. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for IWG and 1 mentions for Grainger. Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat IWG's score of 0.00 indicating that IWG is being referred to more favorably in the 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.
IWG presently has a consensus target price of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 15.90%. Grainger has a consensus target price of GBX 270, suggesting a potential upside of 4.65%. Given Grainger's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe IWG is more favorable than Grainger.
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 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 will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Grainger beats IWG on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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