Head to Head Survey: Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) & Hammerson (OTCMKTS:HMSNF)

Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and Hammerson (OTCMKTS:HMSNF) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by company 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Jones Lang LaSalle and Hammerson”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Jones Lang LaSalle	$26.12 billion	0.53	$792.10 million	$18.60	16.09
Hammerson	$278.73 million	7.83	$306.07 million	N/A	N/A

Jones Lang LaSalle has higher revenue and earnings than Hammerson.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Jones Lang LaSalle and Hammerson, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Jones Lang LaSalle	0	3	5	0	2.63
Hammerson	0	3	1	0	2.25

Jones Lang LaSalle currently has a consensus target price of $394.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.64%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Jones Lang LaSalle is more favorable than Hammerson.

Risk & Volatility

Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hammerson has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Jones Lang LaSalle and Hammerson’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Jones Lang LaSalle	3.35%	13.01%	5.47%
Hammerson	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Jones Lang LaSalle beats Hammerson on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated operates as a commercial real estate and investment management company. It engages in the buying, building, occupying, managing, and investing in a commercial, industrial, hotel, residential, and retail properties in Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers a range of real estate services, including agency leasing, tenant representation, property management, advisory, and consulting services; and capital market services, such as equity and debt advisory, loan sales, equity advisory, loan servicing, merger and acquisition, corporate advisory, and investment sales and advisory services. It also provides on-site management services for office, industrial, retail, multifamily residential, and various other properties; integrated facilities management services; designing, building, management, and consulting services to tenants of leased space, owners in self-occupied buildings, and owners of real estate investments; and advisory, consulting, valuation, and energy and sustainability services. In addition, the company offers investment management services to institutional and retail investors, including high-net-worth individuals. It provides its services to real estate owners, occupiers, investors, and developers for various property types, including critical environments and data centers, offices, industrial and warehouses, residential properties, infrastructure projects, retail and shopping malls, logistics, and military housing and transportation centers; and hotels and hospitality, cultural, educational, government, healthcare and laboratory, and sports facilities. The company was formerly known as LaSalle Partners Incorporated and changed its name to Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated in March 1999. Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

About Hammerson

Hammerson is a cities business. An owner, operator and developer of prime urban real estate, with a portfolio value of £4.7billion (as at 30 June 2023), in some of the fastest growing cities in the UK, Ireland and France. Our portfolio and adjacent lands leverage our experience and capabilities to create and manage exceptional city centre destinations with the opportunity to drive value and reshape entire neighbourhoods. Our assets are high profile and play an important role in our communities, welcoming c. 175 million visitors each year and supporting 20,000+ jobs though our retail, dining and social occupiers. These destinations include Bullring in Birmingham, The Oracle in Reading, Dundrum Estate, Dublin and Terraces du Port in Marseille. We also hold investments in Value Retail, best-in-class villages such as Bicester Village, Oxfordshire. Hammerson also holds 80 acres of attractive pre-development and strategic land. This includes complementary adjacent land, creating optionality to enhance both the scale and diversity of the existing estate, and stand-alone land opportunities. These include Martineau Galleries in Birmingham and Bishopsgate Goodsyard, Shoreditch.