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Helical (HLCL) Competitors

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GBX 225 -1.50 (-0.66%)
As of 07/4/2025

HLCL vs. GWI, MTVW, LOK, TPFG, LSL, FOXT, UAI, PSDL, BLV, and PNS

Should you be buying Helical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helical include Globalworth Real Estate Investments (GWI), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), LSL Property Services (LSL), Foxtons Group (FOXT), U and I Group (UAI), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Belvoir Group (BLV), and Panther Securities (PNS). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.

Helical vs. Its Competitors

Globalworth Real Estate Investments (LON:GWI) and Helical (LON:HLCL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.

Helical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Globalworth Real Estate Investments. Globalworth Real Estate Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Helical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Globalworth Real Estate Investments£24.94B0.03-£10.12B-£0.36-6.58
Helical£40.00M6.90£26.04M£21.2210.60

Globalworth Real Estate Investments has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helical has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Helical had 1 more articles in the media than Globalworth Real Estate Investments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Helical and 0 mentions for Globalworth Real Estate Investments. Helical's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Globalworth Real Estate Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that Helical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Globalworth Real Estate Investments Neutral
Helical Positive

Globalworth Real Estate Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 878.7%. Helical pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Globalworth Real Estate Investments pays out -5,782.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Helical pays out 23.6% 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. Globalworth Real Estate Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Helical has a consensus target price of GBX 275, indicating a potential upside of 22.22%. Given Helical's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Helical is more favorable than Globalworth Real Estate Investments.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Globalworth Real Estate Investments
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Helical
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Helical has a net margin of 65.10% compared to Globalworth Real Estate Investments' net margin of -40.58%. Helical's return on equity of 5.77% beat Globalworth Real Estate Investments' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Globalworth Real Estate Investments-40.58% -6.02% 2.24%
Helical 65.10%5.77%1.01%

5.0% of Globalworth Real Estate Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Helical shares are held by institutional investors. 85.6% of Globalworth Real Estate Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Helical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Helical beats Globalworth Real Estate Investments on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HLCL vs. The Competition

MetricHelicalReal Estate Services IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£276.15M£1.60B£1.62B£2.96B
Dividend Yield1.75%5.01%6.26%5.02%
P/E Ratio10.6021.1010.48147.88
Price / Sales6.90237.331,332.13258,917.23
Price / Cash7.4819.4866.7927.97
Price / Book0.692.151.314.61
Net Income£26.04M-£411.39M-£120.13M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-2.81%0.14%0.12%1.04%
1 Month Performance5.39%3.05%2.50%5.12%
1 Year Performance-4.26%3.92%13.06%80.81%

Helical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HLCL
Helical
3.7523 of 5 stars
GBX 225
-0.7%
GBX 275
+22.2%
-5.0%£276.15M£40.00M10.6027
GWI
Globalworth Real Estate Investments
N/AGBX 2.34
-1.3%
N/A-3.3%£652.10M£24.94B-6.44250
MTVW
Mountview Estates
N/AGBX 9,900
+1.0%
N/A+3.9%£377.54M£77.73M21.7029News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Cut
LOK
Lok'nStore Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£356.58M£27.73M8,500.00193
TPFG
The Property Franchise Group
1.1064 of 5 stars
GBX 550
flat
GBX 592
+7.6%
+25.9%£349.81M£81.03M22.72176News Coverage
LSL
LSL Property Services
N/AGBX 320
-1.5%
N/A-2.1%£329.27M£159.03M30.921,724News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
FOXT
Foxtons Group
N/AGBX 64.50
-2.7%
N/A-4.1%£196.57M£156.07M26.951,354Positive News
UAI
U and I Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£186.27M£45.79M-2.1296
PSDL
Phoenix Spree Deutschland
N/AGBX 166
-2.1%
N/A+5.1%£181.40M£33.09M-2.56N/ANews Coverage
BLV
Belvoir Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£104.04M£34.24M1,395.00218High Trading Volume
PNS
Panther Securities
N/AGBX 304.50
+5.0%
N/AN/A£52.89M£15.54M73.3218Positive News
Gap Up

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This page (LON:HLCL) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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