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IWG (IWG) Competitors

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GBX 182.80 -1.80 (-0.98%)
As of 05/22/2025 11:47 AM Eastern

IWG vs. GRI, SVS, SMP, GWI, LOK, MTVW, LSL, TPFG, HLCL, and FOXT

Should you be buying IWG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IWG include Grainger (GRI), Savills (SVS), St. Modwen Properties (SMP), Globalworth Real Estate Investments (GWI), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Mountview Estates (MTVW), LSL Property Services (LSL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Helical (HLCL), and Foxtons Group (FOXT). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.

IWG vs.

Grainger (LON:GRI) and IWG (LON:IWG) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Grainger has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IWG. Grainger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IWG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Grainger£276.05M5.76-£1.11M-£0.15-1,436.67
IWG£2.76B0.67-£134.02M-£13.45-13.59

Grainger currently has a consensus target price of GBX 317.50, suggesting a potential upside of 47.33%. Given Grainger's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grainger is more favorable than IWG.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Grainger
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
IWG
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Grainger pays out -4,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IWG pays out -7.4% 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. Grainger is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Grainger has a net margin of -0.40% compared to IWG's net margin of -4.86%. Grainger's return on equity of -0.06% beat IWG's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Grainger-0.40% -0.06% 2.14%
IWG -4.86%-356.38%3.01%

In the previous week, Grainger had 2 more articles in the media than IWG. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Grainger and 0 mentions for IWG. Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat IWG's score of 0.00 indicating that Grainger is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Grainger Neutral
IWG Neutral

Grainger received 413 more outperform votes than IWG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.09% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
GraingerOutperform Votes
663
78.09%
Underperform Votes
186
21.91%
IWGOutperform Votes
250
62.19%
Underperform Votes
152
37.81%

85.8% of Grainger shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.6% of IWG shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Grainger shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of IWG shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Grainger has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IWG has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Grainger beats IWG on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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IWG vs. The Competition

MetricIWGReal Estate Services IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.84B£1.57B£1.58B£2.62B
Dividend Yield0.68%5.01%6.37%5.05%
P/E Ratio-13.5921.4810.22129.34
Price / Sales0.67233.461,460.10221,585.85
Price / Cash7.6119.4867.7828.03
Price / Book22.822.011.253.79
Net Income-£134.02M-£411.39M-£117.53M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-3.79%-0.72%-0.50%0.30%
1 Month Performance1.95%2.74%5.11%21.29%
1 Year Performance-10.65%-2.22%4.40%129.43%

IWG Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IWG
IWG
N/AGBX 182.80
-1.0%
N/A-11.3%£1.84B£2.76B-13.5910,000
GRI
Grainger
2.7831 of 5 stars
GBX 216.51
+0.0%
GBX 317.50
+46.6%
-14.1%£1.60B£276.05M-1,443.39372Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
SVS
Savills
N/AGBX 993
+0.7%
N/A-15.4%£1.35B£2.29B30.4240,503News Coverage
SMP
St. Modwen Properties
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.24B£342.10M-10.224,900
GWI
Globalworth Real Estate Investments
N/AGBX 2.46
+2.1%
N/A-1.7%£685.54M£24.94B-6.77250Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LOK
Lok'nStore Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£356.58M£27.73M8,500.00193
MTVW
Mountview Estates
N/AGBX 9,350
-2.6%
N/A+0.8%£356.57M£77.73M20.4929Positive News
Dividend Cut
LSL
LSL Property Services
N/AGBX 305
+1.7%
N/A-8.0%£313.84M£159.03M29.471,724Positive News
TPFG
The Property Franchise Group
N/AGBX 484
+1.9%
GBX 591
+22.1%
+19.2%£307.83M£81.03M20.00176
HLCL
Helical
3.7593 of 5 stars
GBX 238
flat
GBX 275
+15.5%
-2.9%£292.11M£40.00M11.2227News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
FOXT
Foxtons Group
N/AGBX 62.83
-0.3%
N/A-7.9%£191.46M£156.07M26.251,354

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This page (LON:IWG) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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