Ground Rents Income Fund (GRIO) Competitors

Ground Rents Income Fund (LON:GRIO) and Palace Capital (LON:PCA) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Which has more risk & volatility, GRIO or PCA?

Ground Rents Income Fund has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palace Capital has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GRIO or PCA?

Palace Capital received 39 more outperform votes than Ground Rents Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.22% of users gave Ground Rents Income Fund an outperform vote while only 66.51% of users gave Palace Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Ground Rents Income Fund	Outperform Votes 104 72.22%	Underperform Votes 40 27.78%
Palace Capital	Outperform Votes 143 66.51%	Underperform Votes 72 33.49%

Does the media favor GRIO or PCA?

In the previous week, Palace Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Ground Rents Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Palace Capital and 0 mentions for Ground Rents Income Fund. Palace Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Ground Rents Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Palace Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Ground Rents Income Fund	Neutral
Palace Capital	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders believe in GRIO or PCA?

37.9% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Palace Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Palace Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer GRIO or PCA?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ground Rents Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Palace Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is GRIO or PCA a better dividend stock?

Ground Rents Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Palace Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Ground Rents Income Fund pays out -7.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Palace Capital pays out 17.5% 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. Ground Rents Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, GRIO or PCA?

Palace Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Ground Rents Income Fund. Ground Rents Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palace Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ground Rents Income Fund	£5.64M	4.28	-£23.35M	-£25.87	-1.01
Palace Capital	£15.15M	4.13	£24.99M	£85.89	2.51

Is GRIO or PCA more profitable?

Palace Capital has a net margin of 164.89% compared to Ground Rents Income Fund's net margin of -413.74%. Palace Capital's return on equity of 31.11% beat Ground Rents Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ground Rents Income Fund	-413.74%	-39.19%	1.71%
Palace Capital	164.89%	31.11%	2.33%

Summary

Palace Capital beats Ground Rents Income Fund on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.