AEWU vs. PCA, API, RLE, TOWN, SREI, PCTN, PSDL, RGL, HKLD, and CAL
Should you be buying AEW UK REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AEW UK REIT include Palace Capital (PCA), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Real Estate Investors (RLE), Town Centre Securities (TOWN), Schroder Real Estate Invest (SREI), Picton Property Income (PCTN), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Regional REIT (RGL), Hongkong Land (HKLD), and Capital & Regional (CAL). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Palace Capital (LON:PCA) and AEW UK REIT (LON:AEWU) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Palace Capital has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AEW UK REIT has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AEW UK REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Palace Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AEW UK REIT and 1 mentions for Palace Capital. Palace Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat AEW UK REIT's score of 0.59 indicating that AEW UK REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
74.5% of Palace Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of AEW UK REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 21.2% of Palace Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of AEW UK REIT shares are held by 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.
Palace Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. AEW UK REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Palace Capital pays out -2,830.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AEW UK REIT pays out -10,000.0% 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. AEW UK REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
AEW UK REIT received 8 more outperform votes than Palace Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.23% of users gave AEW UK REIT an outperform vote while only 66.82% of users gave Palace Capital an outperform vote.
AEW UK REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Palace Capital. AEW UK REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palace Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AEW UK REIT has a net margin of -55.37% compared to AEW UK REIT's net margin of -76.56%. Palace Capital's return on equity of -6.92% beat AEW UK REIT's return on equity.
Summary
AEW UK REIT beats Palace Capital on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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