FOXT vs. MTVW, LOK, LSL, HLCL, TPFG, UAI, PSDL, BLV, GR1T, and PNS
Should you be buying Foxtons Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foxtons Group include Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), LSL Property Services (LSL), Helical (HLCL), The Property Franchise Group (TPFG), U and I Group (UAI), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Belvoir Group (BLV), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), and Panther Securities (PNS). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
Foxtons Group (LON:FOXT) and Mountview Estates (LON:MTVW) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Mountview Estates has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Foxtons Group. Mountview Estates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foxtons Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foxtons Group received 164 more outperform votes than Mountview Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.69% of users gave Foxtons Group an outperform vote while only 47.71% of users gave Mountview Estates an outperform vote.
Foxtons Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Mountview Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 500 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Foxtons Group pays out 5,000.0% 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 pays out 7,320.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Mountview Estates had 1 more articles in the media than Foxtons Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mountview Estates and 0 mentions for Foxtons Group. Mountview Estates' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Foxtons Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mountview Estates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.0% of Foxtons Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Foxtons Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 73.0% of Mountview Estates shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mountview Estates has a net margin of 35.21% compared to Foxtons Group's net margin of 3.73%. Mountview Estates' return on equity of 6.71% beat Foxtons Group's return on equity.
Foxtons Group has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mountview Estates has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mountview Estates beats Foxtons Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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