GRIO vs. RLE, TOWN, PCA, MPO, CDFF, WINK, FPO, WSP, DCI, and CNN
Should you be buying Ground Rents Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ground Rents Income Fund include Real Estate Investors (RLE), Town Centre Securities (TOWN), Palace Capital (PCA), Macau Property Opportunities (MPO), Cardiff Property (CDFF), M Winkworth (WINK), First Property Group (FPO), Wynnstay Properties (WSP), DCI Advisors (DCI), and Caledonian Trust (CNN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Real Estate Investors (LON:RLE) and Ground Rents Income Fund (LON:GRIO) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Real Estate Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Ground Rents Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Real Estate Investors pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ground Rents Income Fund pays out -2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
50.1% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 35.3% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.4% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ground Rents Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Real Estate Investors. Ground Rents Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Real Estate Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Real Estate Investors had 4 more articles in the media than Ground Rents Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Real Estate Investors and 0 mentions for Ground Rents Income Fund. Ground Rents Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Real Estate Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Real Estate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Real Estate Investors has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ground Rents Income Fund has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Real Estate Investors received 176 more outperform votes than Ground Rents Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.15% of users gave Real Estate Investors an outperform vote while only 72.22% of users gave Ground Rents Income Fund an outperform vote.
Ground Rents Income Fund has a net margin of 57.80% compared to Ground Rents Income Fund's net margin of 15.01%. Real Estate Investors' return on equity of 3.68% beat Ground Rents Income Fund's return on equity.
Summary
Real Estate Investors beats Ground Rents Income Fund on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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