RGL vs. CLI, CAL, PSDL, AEWU, GR1T, RESI, PCA, SERE, HKLD, and FOXT
Should you be buying Regional REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Regional REIT include CLS (CLI), Capital & Regional (CAL), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), AEW UK REIT (AEWU), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Residential Secure Income (RESI), Palace Capital (PCA), Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust (SERE), Hongkong Land (HKLD), and Foxtons Group (FOXT). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Regional REIT (LON:RGL) and CLS (LON:CLI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
CLS has a consensus target price of GBX 114, indicating a potential upside of 20.13%. Given CLS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CLS is more favorable than Regional REIT.
19.5% of Regional REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of CLS shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Regional REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.4% of CLS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Regional REIT has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CLS has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CLS received 194 more outperform votes than Regional REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.65% of users gave CLS an outperform vote while only 77.48% of users gave Regional REIT an outperform vote.
Regional REIT has a net margin of -73.42% compared to CLS's net margin of -167.99%. Regional REIT's return on equity of -19.03% beat CLS's return on equity.
Regional REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.1%. CLS pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Regional REIT pays out -3,846.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CLS pays out -1,269.8% 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. Regional REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Regional REIT had 1 more articles in the media than CLS. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Regional REIT and 1 mentions for CLS. CLS's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Regional REIT's score of 0.91 indicating that CLS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Regional REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CLS. Regional REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CLS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CLS beats Regional REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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