BEKE vs. JLL, ARE, EG, WRB, SBAC, ERIE, LPLA, HBAN, INVH, and BSBR
Should you be buying KE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KE include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Everest Group (EG), W. R. Berkley (WRB), SBA Communications (SBAC), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), LPL Financial (LPLA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Invitation Homes (INVH), and Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and KE (NYSE:BEKE) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Jones Lang LaSalle presently has a consensus price target of $214.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. KE has a consensus price target of $21.45, suggesting a potential upside of 27.07%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KE is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
In the previous week, Jones Lang LaSalle had 26 more articles in the media than KE. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Jones Lang LaSalle and 7 mentions for KE. Jones Lang LaSalle's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat KE's score of 0.77 indicating that KE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of KE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of KE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
KE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. KE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jones Lang LaSalle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KE has a net margin of 7.62% compared to KE's net margin of 1.09%. Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity of 9.19% beat KE's return on equity.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KE has a beta of -0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 177% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jones Lang LaSalle received 410 more outperform votes than KE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.63% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave KE an outperform vote.
Summary
Jones Lang LaSalle and KE tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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