GRIO vs. RLE, TOWN, PCA, MPO, CDFF, WINK, FPO, WSP, CNN, and DCI
Should you be buying Ground Rents Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ground Rents Income Fund include Real Estate Investors (RLE), Town Centre Securities (TOWN), Palace Capital (PCA), Macau Property Opportunities (MPO), Cardiff Property (CDFF), M Winkworth (WINK), First Property Group (FPO), Wynnstay Properties (WSP), Caledonian Trust (CNN), and DCI Advisors (DCI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Real Estate Investors (LON:RLE) and Ground Rents Income Fund (LON:GRIO) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
49.8% of Real Estate Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.9% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.2% of Real Estate Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Ground Rents Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Real Estate Investors had 5 more articles in the media than Ground Rents Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Real Estate Investors and 0 mentions for Ground Rents Income Fund. Ground Rents Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Real Estate Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Real Estate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Real Estate Investors received 176 more outperform votes than Ground Rents Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.15% of users gave Real Estate Investors an outperform vote while only 72.22% of users gave Ground Rents Income Fund an outperform vote.
Ground Rents Income Fund has a net margin of 57.80% compared to Ground Rents Income Fund's net margin of -81.71%. Real Estate Investors' return on equity of 3.68% beat Ground Rents Income Fund's return on equity.
Ground Rents Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Real Estate Investors. Real Estate Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ground Rents Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Real Estate Investors has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ground Rents Income Fund has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Real Estate Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Ground Rents Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Real Estate Investors pays out -6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ground Rents Income Fund pays out -2,500.0% 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. Real Estate Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Real Estate Investors beats Ground Rents Income Fund on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Ground Rents Income Fund News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for GRIO and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GRIO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Ground Rents Income Fund Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
