BOOT vs. HLCL, SOHO, TPFG, NRR, SREI, API, LSL, FOXT, CREI, and CLI
Should you be buying Henry Boot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henry Boot include Helical (HLCL), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), NewRiver REIT (NRR), Schroder Real Estate Invest (SREI), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), LSL Property Services (LSL), Foxtons Group (FOXT), Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI), and CLS (CLI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Helical (LON:HLCL) and Henry Boot (LON:BOOT) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Helical presently has a consensus price target of GBX 351.50, indicating a potential upside of 66.98%. Henry Boot has a consensus price target of GBX 310, indicating a potential upside of 67.59%. Given Helical's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Henry Boot is more favorable than Helical.
Helical has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henry Boot has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Helical received 206 more outperform votes than Henry Boot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.65% of users gave Helical an outperform vote while only 65.12% of users gave Henry Boot an outperform vote.
Henry Boot has higher revenue and earnings than Helical. Helical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henry Boot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Henry Boot has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Henry Boot's net margin of 0.00%. Helical's return on equity of 7.10% beat Henry Boot's return on equity.
75.3% of Helical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Henry Boot shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.3% of Helical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.2% of Henry Boot shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Henry Boot had 9 more articles in the media than Helical. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Henry Boot and 0 mentions for Helical. Henry Boot's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Helical's score of 0.47 indicating that Helical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Helical pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Henry Boot pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Helical pays out -839.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Henry Boot pays out 3,684.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Helical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Henry Boot beats Helical on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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