SVS vs. GRI, IWG, SAFE, HMSO, LXI, PHP, SRE, AGR, BYG, and WKP
Should you be buying Savills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savills include Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), Safestore (SAFE), Hammerson (HMSO), Lxi Reit (LXI), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Assura (AGR), Big Yellow Group (BYG), and Workspace Group (WKP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Savills (LON:SVS) and Grainger (LON:GRI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Savills has higher revenue and earnings than Grainger. Savills is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grainger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.0% of Savills shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Grainger shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Savills shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grainger shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Savills and Savills both had 2 articles in the media. Savills' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Grainger's score of 0.48 indicating that Savills is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grainger has a consensus target price of GBX 270, suggesting a potential upside of 4.73%. Given Grainger's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Grainger is more favorable than Savills.
Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Grainger pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Savills pays out 7,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Grainger pays out 23,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Savills has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grainger has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grainger received 469 more outperform votes than Savills when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.01% of users gave Grainger an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote.
Grainger has a net margin of 9.58% compared to Savills' net margin of 1.82%. Savills' return on equity of 5.07% beat Grainger's return on equity.
Summary
Grainger beats Savills on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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