SVS vs. IWG, GRI, MTVW, SAFE, HMSO, SRE, PHP, AGR, GPE, and BYG
Should you be buying Savills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savills include IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Safestore (SAFE), Hammerson (HMSO), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Assura (AGR), Great Portland Estates (GPE), and Big Yellow Group (BYG). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
IWG (LON:IWG) and Savills (LON:SVS) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
39.0% of IWG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Savills shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.9% of IWG shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Savills shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IWG currently has a consensus target price of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 15.47%. Given Savills' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IWG is more favorable than Savills.
IWG pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Savills pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. IWG pays out -952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Savills pays out 7,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
IWG has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savills has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IWG had 2 more articles in the media than Savills. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for IWG and 0 mentions for Savills. IWG's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Savills' score of -0.07 indicating that Savills is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IWG received 59 more outperform votes than Savills when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.97% of users gave Savills an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave IWG an outperform vote.
Savills has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IWG. IWG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Savills has a net margin of 1.82% compared to Savills' net margin of -7.27%. IWG's return on equity of 5.07% beat Savills' return on equity.
Summary
Savills beats IWG on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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