Financial Comparison: LEG Immobilien (LEGIF) & Its Peers

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for LEG Immobilien and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LEG Immobilien	1	0	2	0	2.33
LEG Immobilien Competitors	1586	4696	7452	209	2.45

As a group, “Real Estate Management & Development” companies have a potential upside of 20.95%. Given LEG Immobilien’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LEG Immobilien has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

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 peers have a beta of -0.20, indicating that their average stock price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares LEG Immobilien and its peers’ 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	-264.82%	-682.97%	-1.14%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares LEG Immobilien and its peers top-line 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	$2.69 billion	-$400.38 million	25.61

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

32.4% of shares of all “Real Estate Management & Development” companies are owned by institutional investors. 27.0% of shares of all “Real Estate Management & Development” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

LEG Immobilien Company Profile

LEG Immobilien SE is a German residential property company that owns, manages and develops housing, with a focus on rental apartments. Its activities also include property management and services for tenants, as well as maintaining and modernizing its buildings. The company’s roots date to 1970, when it was established as the state-owned Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen. It was privatized in 2008 and later became a publicly listed real estate company. LEG’s portfolio is concentrated in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, and it also has residential properties in other parts of Germany.