SWEF vs. FSG, HONY, BSIF, AAS, OTV2, NAS, OAP3, PINT, ESCT, and CGI
Should you be buying Starwood European Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood European Real Estate Finance include Foresight Group (FSG), Pollen Street (HONY), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), and Canadian General Investments (CGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Starwood European Real Estate Finance vs. Its Competitors
Foresight Group (LON:FSG) and Starwood European Real Estate Finance (LON:SWEF) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Foresight Group has higher revenue and earnings than Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Foresight Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood European Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Starwood European Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 80.09% compared to Foresight Group's net margin of 18.70%. Foresight Group's return on equity of 32.24% beat Starwood European Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Foresight Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 580, indicating a potential upside of 23.58%. Given Foresight Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Foresight Group is more favorable than Starwood European Real Estate Finance.
In the previous week, Foresight Group had 5 more articles in the media than Starwood European Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Foresight Group and 0 mentions for Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Foresight Group's score of 0.82 indicating that Starwood European Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
41.8% of Foresight Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.6% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 33.1% of Foresight Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Foresight Group pays out 81.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays out 192.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Foresight Group beats Starwood European Real Estate Finance on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:SWEF) was last updated on 9/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
