Saga (SAGA) Competitors

Saga (LON:SAGA) and Prs Reit (LON:PRSR) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SAGA or PRSR?

Saga received 425 more outperform votes than Prs Reit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.39% of users gave Saga an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Prs Reit an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Saga	Outperform Votes 510 69.39%	Underperform Votes 225 30.61%
Prs Reit	Outperform Votes 85 50.00%	Underperform Votes 85 50.00%

Do analysts prefer SAGA or PRSR?

Saga presently has a consensus price target of GBX 154, suggesting a potential upside of 15.10%. Prs Reit has a consensus price target of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 3.97%. Given Saga's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Saga is more favorable than Prs Reit.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Saga	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Prs Reit	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, SAGA or PRSR?

Prs Reit has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Saga. Saga is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prs Reit, 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
Saga	£799.48M	0.23	-£147.23M	-£106.79	-1.25
Prs Reit	£58.11M	10.87	£93.32M	£17.11	6.74

Which has more risk & volatility, SAGA or PRSR?

Saga has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prs Reit has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to SAGA or PRSR?

In the previous week, Saga had 20 more articles in the media than Prs Reit. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Saga and 0 mentions for Prs Reit. Prs Reit's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Saga's score of 0.18 indicating that Prs Reit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Saga	Neutral
Prs Reit	Neutral

Is SAGA or PRSR more profitable?

Prs Reit has a net margin of 160.59% compared to Saga's net margin of -18.42%. Prs Reit's return on equity of 13.28% beat Saga's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Saga	-18.42%	-87.14%	2.90%
Prs Reit	160.59%	13.28%	2.07%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of SAGA or PRSR?

13.4% of Saga shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.6% of Prs Reit shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.5% of Saga shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Prs Reit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is SAGA or PRSR a better dividend stock?

Saga pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Prs Reit pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Saga pays out -1.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prs Reit pays out 23.4% 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.

Summary

Saga and Prs Reit tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.