SERE vs. LOK, MTVW, LSL, SLI, TPFG, BOOT, HLCL, SOHO, NRR, and SREI
Should you be buying Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust include Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Mountview Estates (MTVW), LSL Property Services (LSL), Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLI), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Henry Boot (BOOT), Helical (HLCL), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), NewRiver REIT (NRR), and Schroder Real Estate Invest (SREI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust (LON:SERE) and Lok'nStore Group (LON:LOK) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Lok'nStore Group has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -13.65%. Lok'nStore Group's return on equity of 1.87% beat Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lok'nStore Group has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.5% of Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.1% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.9% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lok'nStore Group received 147 more outperform votes than Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.45% of users gave Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 62.46% of users gave Lok'nStore Group an outperform vote.
Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Lok'nStore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -25,000.0% 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. Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lok'nStore Group has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust. Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust 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.
In the previous week, Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Lok'nStore Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Lok'nStore Group beats Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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