LOK vs. MTVW, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, FOXT, PSDL, GR1T, CREI, IHR, and PCTN
Should you be buying Lok'nStore Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lok'nStore Group include Mountview Estates (MTVW), LSL Property Services (LSL), Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Foxtons Group (FOXT), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), and Picton Property Income (PCTN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Mountview Estates (LON:MTVW) and Lok'nStore Group (LON:LOK) 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 dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Mountview Estates has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lok'nStore Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mountview Estates has higher revenue and earnings than Lok'nStore Group. Mountview Estates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lok'nStore Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mountview Estates had 1 more articles in the media than Lok'nStore Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Mountview Estates and 1 mentions for Lok'nStore Group. Mountview Estates' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Lok'nStore Group's score of 1.06 indicating that Lok'nStore Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lok'nStore Group received 79 more outperform votes than Mountview Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.46% of users gave Lok'nStore Group an outperform vote while only 47.71% of users gave Mountview Estates an outperform vote.
Mountview Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 500 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Lok'nStore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Mountview Estates pays out 7,320.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lok'nStore Group pays out 12,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mountview Estates is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mountview Estates has a net margin of 35.21% compared to Mountview Estates' net margin of 17.28%. Lok'nStore Group's return on equity of 6.71% beat Mountview Estates' return on equity.
7.9% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.5% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 73.0% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Mountview Estates beats Lok'nStore Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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