LSL vs. LOK, HLCL, MTVW, TPFG, FOXT, PSDL, GR1T, CREI, CLI, and WHR
Should you be buying LSL Property Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSL Property Services include Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Helical (HLCL), Mountview Estates (MTVW), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Foxtons Group (FOXT), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI), CLS (CLI), and Warehouse REIT (WHR). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Lok'nStore Group (LON:LOK) and LSL Property Services (LON:LSL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Lok'nStore Group has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Lok'nStore Group's net margin of -37.88%. LSL Property Services' return on equity of 1.87% beat Lok'nStore Group's return on equity.
Lok'nStore Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSL Property Services has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lok'nStore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. LSL Property Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Lok'nStore Group pays out 15,833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LSL Property Services pays out -1,692.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LSL Property Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
50.4% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of LSL Property Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.8% of Lok'nStore Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of LSL Property Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, LSL Property Services had 2 more articles in the media than Lok'nStore Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for LSL Property Services and 0 mentions for Lok'nStore Group. LSL Property Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Lok'nStore Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Lok'nStore Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LSL Property Services. LSL Property Services 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.
LSL Property Services has a consensus target price of GBX 400, indicating a potential upside of 32.45%. Given Lok'nStore Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LSL Property Services is more favorable than Lok'nStore Group.
LSL Property Services received 36 more outperform votes than Lok'nStore Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.99% of users gave LSL Property Services an outperform vote while only 62.46% of users gave Lok'nStore Group an outperform vote.
Summary
LSL Property Services beats Lok'nStore Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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