Plaza Centers (PLAZ) Competitors

Secure Property Development & Investment (LON:SPDI) and Plaza Centers (LON:PLAZ) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Is SPDI or PLAZ more profitable?

Secure Property Development & Investment has a net margin of 224.30% compared to Plaza Centers' net margin of -168,692.86%. Secure Property Development & Investment's return on equity of 39.27% beat Plaza Centers' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Secure Property Development & Investment	224.30%	39.27%	-0.35%
Plaza Centers	-168,692.86%	35.40%	-15.03%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SPDI or PLAZ?

Secure Property Development & Investment received 19 more outperform votes than Plaza Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.87% of users gave Plaza Centers an outperform vote while only 70.09% of users gave Secure Property Development & Investment an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Secure Property Development & Investment	Outperform Votes 75 70.09%	Underperform Votes 32 29.91%
Plaza Centers	Outperform Votes 56 78.87%	Underperform Votes 15 21.13%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in SPDI or PLAZ?

0.2% of Secure Property Development & Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.3% of Plaza Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 62.8% of Secure Property Development & Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.5% of Plaza Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor SPDI or PLAZ?

In the previous week, Plaza Centers had 1 more articles in the media than Secure Property Development & Investment. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Plaza Centers and 0 mentions for Secure Property Development & Investment. Plaza Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Secure Property Development & Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Plaza Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Secure Property Development & Investment	Neutral
Plaza Centers	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, SPDI or PLAZ?

Secure Property Development & Investment has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plaza Centers has a beta of -0.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, SPDI or PLAZ?

Secure Property Development & Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Plaza Centers. Plaza Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Property Development & Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Secure Property Development & Investment	£3.92M	1.58	£8.79M	£4.73	0.85
Plaza Centers	£33.70K	48.82	-£56.84M	-£575.91	-0.03

Summary

Secure Property Development & Investment beats Plaza Centers on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.