MTVW vs. LOK, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, FOXT, PSDL, GR1T, PCTN, WHR, and IHR
Should you be buying Mountview Estates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mountview Estates include Lok'nStore Group (LOK), LSL Property Services (LSL), Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), Foxtons Group (FOXT), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Picton Property Income (PCTN), Warehouse REIT (WHR), and Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR). 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 better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
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 1 mentions for Mountview Estates and 0 mentions for Lok'nStore Group. Mountview Estates' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Lok'nStore Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mountview Estates is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 7,309.9% 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 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. 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 Lok'nStore Group's net margin of 14.34%. Mountview Estates' return on equity of 6.71% beat Lok'nStore Group's return on equity.
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.
7.9% of Mountview Estates shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Lok'nStore Group shares are held by institutional investors. 73.0% of Mountview Estates shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Lok'nStore Group shares are held by 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.
Mountview Estates has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lok'nStore Group has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mountview Estates beats Lok'nStore Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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