Savills (SVS) Competitors

Savills (LON:SVS) and IWG (LON:IWG) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, SVS or IWG?

Savills has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IWG. IWG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savills, 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
Savills	£2.29B	0.57	£44.22M	£32.65	29.25
IWG	£2.76B	0.72	-£134.02M	-£13.45	-14.64

Do institutionals and insiders believe in SVS or IWG?

67.0% of Savills shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.6% of IWG shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Savills shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of IWG shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is SVS or IWG a better dividend stock?

Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Savills pays out 64.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IWG pays out -7.4% 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.

Is SVS or IWG more profitable?

Savills has a net margin of 1.93% compared to IWG's net margin of -4.86%. Savills' return on equity of 6.17% beat IWG's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Savills	1.93%	6.17%	2.01%
IWG	-4.86%	-356.38%	3.01%

Does the media prefer SVS or IWG?

In the previous week, Savills had 3 more articles in the media than IWG. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Savills and 4 mentions for IWG. IWG's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Savills' score of 0.32 indicating that IWG is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Savills	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
IWG	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, SVS or IWG?

Savills has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IWG has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SVS or IWG?

IWG received 59 more outperform votes than Savills when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Savills	Outperform Votes 191 64.97%	Underperform Votes 103 35.03%
IWG	Outperform Votes 250 62.19%	Underperform Votes 152 37.81%

Summary

Savills beats IWG on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.