RLE vs. TOWN, GRIO, PCA, AEWU, API, SREI, AIRE, PNS, CIC, and DCI
Should you be buying Real Estate Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Real Estate Investors include Town Centre Securities (TOWN), Ground Rents Income Fund (GRIO), Palace Capital (PCA), AEW UK REIT (AEWU), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Schroder Real Estate Invest (SREI), Alternative Income REIT (AIRE), Panther Securities (PNS), Conygar Investment (CIC), and DCI Advisors (DCI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Real Estate Investors (LON:RLE) and Town Centre Securities (LON:TOWN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
49.8% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of Town Centre Securities shares are held by institutional investors. 35.2% of Real Estate Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.9% of Town Centre Securities shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Real Estate Investors has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Town Centre Securities has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Town Centre Securities received 33 more outperform votes than Real Estate Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.15% of users gave Real Estate Investors an outperform vote while only 73.82% of users gave Town Centre Securities an outperform vote.
Real Estate Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Town Centre Securities pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Real Estate Investors pays out -6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Town Centre Securities pays out -833.3% 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.
In the previous week, Real Estate Investors had 5 more articles in the media than Town Centre Securities. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Real Estate Investors and 2 mentions for Town Centre Securities. Town Centre Securities' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Real Estate Investors' score of 0.11 indicating that Town Centre Securities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Town Centre Securities has a net margin of -57.35% compared to Real Estate Investors' net margin of -81.71%. Real Estate Investors' return on equity of -9.20% beat Town Centre Securities' return on equity.
Real Estate Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Town Centre Securities. Real Estate Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Town Centre Securities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Real Estate Investors beats Town Centre Securities on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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