LOK vs. SMP, MTVW, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, FOXT, UAI, PSDL, BLV, and GR1T
Should you be buying Lok'nStore Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lok'nStore Group include St. Modwen Properties (SMP), Mountview Estates (MTVW), LSL Property Services (LSL), Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Foxtons Group (FOXT), U and I Group (UAI), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Belvoir Group (BLV), and Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
St. Modwen Properties (LON:SMP) and Lok'nStore Group (LON:LOK) 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 institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
Lok'nStore Group has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Lok'nStore Group's net margin of 0.00%. St. Modwen Properties' return on equity of 1.87% beat Lok'nStore Group's return on equity.
Lok'nStore Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. Modwen Properties. St. Modwen Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lok'nStore Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
53.1% of Lok'nStore Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.9% of Lok'nStore Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
St. Modwen Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share. Lok'nStore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. St. Modwen Properties pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lok'nStore Group pays out 14,615.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Lok'nStore Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled St. Modwen Properties'average media sentiment score.
St. Modwen Properties received 317 more outperform votes than Lok'nStore Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.99% of users gave St. Modwen Properties an outperform vote while only 62.46% of users gave Lok'nStore Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Lok'nStore Group beats St. Modwen Properties on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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