SWEF vs. EAT, RSE, POLR, and DGN
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 European Assets Trust (EAT), Riverstone Energy (RSE), Polar Capital (POLR), and Asia Dragon Trust (DGN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
European Assets Trust (LON:EAT) and Starwood European Real Estate Finance (LON:SWEF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
European Assets Trust has a net margin of 87.48% compared to European Assets Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 8.72% beat European Assets Trust's return on equity.
European Assets Trust received 27 more outperform votes than Starwood European Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.40% of users gave Starwood European Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave European Assets Trust an outperform vote.
European Assets Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Starwood European Real Estate Finance. European Assets Trust 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.
40.3% of European Assets Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of European Assets Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
European Assets Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. European Assets Trust pays out 6,666.7% 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 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. European Assets Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
European Assets Trust presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,437, suggesting a potential upside of 1,582.67%. Given Starwood European Real Estate Finance's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe European Assets Trust is more favorable than Starwood European Real Estate Finance.
In the previous week, European Assets Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Starwood European Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for European Assets Trust and 2 mentions for Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat European Assets Trust's score of -0.47 indicating that European Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
European Assets Trust beats Starwood European Real Estate Finance on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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