Reviewing British Land (OTCMKTS:BTLCY) & Exp World (NASDAQ:EXPI)

Exp World (NASDAQ:EXPI) and British Land (OTCMKTS:BTLCY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Exp World and British Land, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Exp World	1	1	1	0	2.00
British Land	0	1	2	1	3.00

Exp World presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.13%. Given Exp World’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Exp World is more favorable than British Land.

Dividends

Exp World pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. British Land pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Exp World pays out -166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Exp World has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Risk & Volatility

Exp World has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, British Land has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Exp World and British Land”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Exp World	$4.57 billion	0.26	-$21.27 million	($0.12)	-62.58
British Land	$571.65 million	9.82	$431.25 million	N/A	N/A

British Land has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Exp World.

Profitability

This table compares Exp World and British Land’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Exp World	-0.41%	-6.61%	-3.26%
British Land	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

27.2% of Exp World shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Exp World shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

British Land beats Exp World on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Exp World

eXp World Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based real estate brokerage services for residential homeowners and homebuyers. The company operates through North American Realty, International Realty, Virbela, and Other Affiliated Services segments. It provides Virbela, a cloud-based technologies that provides data, lead generation, and marketing tools for real estate agents and employees. In addition, the company offers SUCCESS print magazine, SUCCESS.com portal, SUCCESS newsletters, SUCCESS podcasts, SUCCESS plus, SUCCESS speakers bureau, and SUCCESS coaching, podcasts, and digital training courses. It operates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, India, Mexico, Portugal, France, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Italy, Hong Kong, Colombia, Spain, Israel, Panama, Germany, the Dominican Republic, Greece, New Zealand, Chile, and Poland. The company was formerly known as eXp Realty International Corporation and changed its name to eXp World Holdings, Inc. in May 2016. eXp World Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Bellingham, Washington.

About British Land

Our portfolio of high quality UK commercial property is focused on London Campuses and Retail & London Urban Logistics assets throughout the UK. We own or manage a portfolio valued at £13.0bn (British Land share: £8.9bn) as at 31 March 2023 making us one of Europe's largest listed real estate investment companies. We create Places People Prefer, delivering the best, most sustainable places for our customers and communities. Our strategy is to leverage our best in class platform and proven expertise in development, repositioning and active management, investing behind two key themes: Campuses and Retail & London Urban Logistics. Our three Campuses at Broadgate, Paddington Central and Regent's Place are dynamic neighbourhoods, attracting growth customers and sectors, and offering some of the best connected, highest quality and most sustainable space in London. We are delivering our fourth Campus at Canada Water, where we have planning consent to deliver 5m sq ft of residential, commercial, retail and community space over 53 acres. Our Campuses account for 63% of our portfolio. Retail & London Urban Logistics accounts for 37% of the portfolio and is focused on retail parks which are aligned to the growth of convenience, online and last mile fulfilment. We are complementing this with urban logistics primarily in London, focused on development-led opportunities. Sustainability is embedded throughout our business. Our approach is focused on three key pillars where British Land can create the most benefit: Greener Spaces, making our whole portfolio net zero carbon by 2030, Thriving Places, partnering to grow social value and wellbeing in the communities where we operate and Responsible Choices, advocating responsible business practices across British Land and throughout our supply chain, and maintaining robust governance structures.