LSL vs. HLCL, TPFG, LOK, MTVW, FOXT, PSDL, GR1T, BOOT, SOHO, and NRR
Should you be buying LSL Property Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSL Property Services include Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Foxtons Group (FOXT), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Henry Boot (BOOT), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), and NewRiver REIT (NRR). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
LSL Property Services (LON:LSL) and Helical (LON:HLCL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
LSL Property Services has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helical has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
LSL Property Services has higher revenue and earnings than Helical. LSL Property Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Helical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.7% of LSL Property Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Helical shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of LSL Property Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of Helical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, LSL Property Services had 7 more articles in the media than Helical. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for LSL Property Services and 1 mentions for Helical. Helical's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat LSL Property Services' score of 0.67 indicating that Helical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Helical has a net margin of 0.00% compared to LSL Property Services' net margin of -37.88%. Helical's return on equity of -29.26% beat LSL Property Services' return on equity.
Helical received 155 more outperform votes than LSL Property Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.65% of users gave Helical an outperform vote while only 64.99% of users gave LSL Property Services an outperform vote.
LSL Property Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Helical pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. LSL Property Services pays out -1,692.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Helical pays out -839.2% 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.
LSL Property Services presently has a consensus price target of GBX 400, indicating a potential upside of 39.86%. Helical has a consensus price target of GBX 351.50, indicating a potential upside of 71.05%. Given Helical's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Helical is more favorable than LSL Property Services.
Summary
Helical beats LSL Property Services on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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