Analyzing LEG Immobilien (LEGIF) and Its Rivals

LEG Immobilien (OTCMKTS:LEGIF) is one of 329 public companies in the “Real Estate Management & Development” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare LEG Immobilien to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for LEG Immobilien and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LEG Immobilien	1	0	2	0	2.33
LEG Immobilien Competitors	1583	4692	7449	209	2.45

As a group, “Real Estate Management & Development” companies have a potential upside of 20.78%. Given LEG Immobilien’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LEG Immobilien has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares LEG Immobilien and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
LEG Immobilien	$1.56 billion	$1.65 billion	3.41
LEG Immobilien Competitors	$2.85 billion	-$400.38 million	25.69

LEG Immobilien’s competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than LEG Immobilien. LEG Immobilien is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

LEG Immobilien has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LEG Immobilien’s competitors have a beta of -0.21, indicating that their average stock price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares LEG Immobilien and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LEG Immobilien	106.86%	14.47%	6.07%
LEG Immobilien Competitors	-264.85%	-682.95%	-1.12%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

32.4% of shares of all “Real Estate Management & Development” companies are owned by institutional investors. 27.1% of shares of all “Real Estate Management & Development” companies 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.

Summary

LEG Immobilien competitors beat LEG Immobilien on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About LEG Immobilien

LEG Immobilien SE, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated property company in Germany. The company engages in the performance of services and management of equity investments; property management and location development; performance of services for third parties and housing industry services; and generation of electricity and heat activities. It also provides information technology (IT) services for third parties; and management services for third-party properties. The company's property portfolio consisted of residential units; commercial units; and garages and parking spaces in North Rhine-Westphalia. LEG Immobilien SE was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.