Financial Survey: REA Group (RPGRF) and Its Competitors

REA Group (OTCMKTS:RPGRF) is one of 191 public companies in the “Interactive Media & Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare REA Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares REA Group and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
REA Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
REA Group Competitors	-356.44%	-19.77%	4.73%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for REA Group and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
REA Group	0	1	0	0	2.00
REA Group Competitors	1346	5821	11251	419	2.57

REA Group presently has a consensus target price of $270.00, indicating a potential upside of 116.95%. As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies have a potential upside of 21.67%. Given REA Group’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe REA Group is more favorable than its rivals.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

10.5% of REA Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares REA Group and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
REA Group	N/A	N/A	109.45
REA Group Competitors	$12.17 billion	$3.51 billion	8.77

REA Group’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than REA Group. REA Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

REA Group rivals beat REA Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared.

About REA Group

REA Group Limited engages in online property advertising business in Australia, Asia, and North America. It offers property and property-related services on websites and mobile apps. The company operates residential, commercial, share, and co-working property sites, such as realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au, spacely.com.au, Flatmates.com.au, iproperty.com.my, smartline.com.au, hometrack.com.au, 1form.com, rumah123.com, iproperty.com.sg, squarefoot.com.hk, ThinkgOfLiving.com, myfun.com, smartexpos.com, makaan.com, housing.com, PropTiger.com, move.com, realtor.com, and 99.co. It also provides mortgage broking and home-financing solutions. The company was formerly known as realestate.com.au Ltd. and changed its name to REA Group Limited in December 2008. REA Group Limited was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Richmond, Australia. REA Group Limited operates as a subsidiary of News Corporation.