LSL vs. SMP, GWI, MTVW, LOK, TPFG, HLCL, FOXT, UAI, PSDL, and BLV
Should you be buying LSL Property Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSL Property Services include St. Modwen Properties (SMP), Globalworth Real Estate Investments (GWI), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Helical (HLCL), Foxtons Group (FOXT), U and I Group (UAI), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), and Belvoir Group (BLV). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
LSL Property Services vs. Its Competitors
St. Modwen Properties (LON:SMP) and LSL Property Services (LON:LSL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
St. Modwen Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share. LSL Property Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. St. Modwen Properties pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LSL Property Services pays out 106.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
LSL Property Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. Modwen Properties. St. Modwen Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSL Property Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.0% of LSL Property Services shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of LSL Property Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, LSL Property Services had 4 more articles in the media than St. Modwen Properties. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for LSL Property Services and 0 mentions for St. Modwen Properties. LSL Property Services' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat St. Modwen Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that LSL Property Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LSL Property Services has a net margin of 6.74% compared to St. Modwen Properties' net margin of 0.00%. LSL Property Services' return on equity of 13.68% beat St. Modwen Properties' return on equity.
Summary
LSL Property Services beats St. Modwen Properties on 10 of the 12 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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This page (LON:LSL) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
