TPFG vs. HLCL, FOXT, LSL, PSDL, LOK, MTVW, GR1T, SOHO, NRR, and BOOT
Should you be buying The Property Franchise Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Property Franchise Group include Helical (HLCL), Foxtons Group (FOXT), LSL Property Services (LSL), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), NewRiver REIT (NRR), and Henry Boot (BOOT). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Helical (LON:HLCL) and The Property Franchise Group (LON:TPFG) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
The Property Franchise Group has a net margin of 27.11% compared to The Property Franchise Group's net margin of 0.00%. Helical's return on equity of 18.90% beat The Property Franchise Group's return on equity.
71.7% of Helical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of The Property Franchise Group shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of Helical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of The Property Franchise Group 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.
Helical pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. The Property Franchise Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Helical pays out -839.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Property Franchise Group pays out 5,454.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Helical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
The Property Franchise Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Helical. Helical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Property Franchise Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Helical currently has a consensus price target of GBX 351.50, suggesting a potential upside of 52.43%. The Property Franchise Group has a consensus price target of GBX 459.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.18%. Given The Property Franchise Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Helical is more favorable than The Property Franchise Group.
Helical received 197 more outperform votes than The Property Franchise Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.65% of users gave Helical an outperform vote while only 68.08% of users gave The Property Franchise Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Helical had 1 more articles in the media than The Property Franchise Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Helical and 0 mentions for The Property Franchise Group. The Property Franchise Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Helical'saverage media sentiment score.
Helical has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Property Franchise Group has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Helical beats The Property Franchise Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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