TOWN vs. RLE, PCA, GRIO, AEWU, API, SREI, AIRE, PNS, CIC, and DCI
Should you be buying Town Centre Securities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Town Centre Securities include Real Estate Investors (RLE), Palace Capital (PCA), Ground Rents Income Fund (GRIO), Aew Uk Reit (AEWU), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (SREI), Alternative Income REIT (AIRE), Panther Securities (PNS), Conygar Investment (CIC), and DCI Advisors (DCI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Real Estate Investors (LON:RLE) and Town Centre Securities (LON:TOWN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Real Estate Investors has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Town Centre Securities has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Real Estate Investors had 2 more articles in the media than Town Centre Securities. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Real Estate Investors and 2 mentions for Town Centre Securities. Town Centre Securities' average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Real Estate Investors' score of -0.21 indicating that Real Estate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Real Estate Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Town Centre Securities pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Real Estate Investors pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Town Centre Securities pays out -833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Town Centre Securities received 33 more outperform votes than Real Estate Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.15% of users gave Real Estate Investors an outperform vote while only 73.82% of users gave Town Centre Securities an outperform vote.
Real Estate Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Town Centre Securities. Town Centre Securities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Real Estate Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Real Estate Investors has a net margin of 15.01% compared to Real Estate Investors' net margin of -57.35%. Town Centre Securities' return on equity of 1.69% beat Real Estate Investors' return on equity.
50.1% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.6% of Town Centre Securities shares are held by institutional investors. 35.3% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.9% of Town Centre Securities shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Real Estate Investors beats Town Centre Securities on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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