FirstService (FSV) Competitors

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (NYSE:VTMX) and FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.

Is VTMX or FSV more profitable?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a net margin of 164.44% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.19%. FirstService's return on equity of 16.68% beat Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	164.44%	15.40%	10.25%
FirstService	2.19%	16.68%	4.65%

Do analysts rate VTMX or FSV?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta currently has a consensus target price of $33.50, indicating a potential upside of 32.92%. FirstService has a consensus target price of $201.67, indicating a potential upside of 9.03%. Given Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is more favorable than FirstService.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is VTMX or FSV a better dividend stock?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService pays out 41.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more volatility & risk, VTMX or FSV?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstService has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer VTMX or FSV?

In the previous week, FirstService had 8 more articles in the media than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FirstService and 1 mentions for Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's score of 0.47 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
FirstService	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, VTMX or FSV?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstService. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	$214.47M	101.52	$316.64M	$4.42	5.70
FirstService	$4.33B	1.93	$100.39M	$2.40	77.07

Do insiders and institutionals believe in VTMX or FSV?

6.6% of Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor VTMX or FSV?

FirstService received 321 more outperform votes than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta an outperform vote while only 60.15% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	Outperform Votes 5 71.43%	Underperform Votes 2 28.57%
FirstService	Outperform Votes 326 60.15%	Underperform Votes 216 39.85%

Summary

FirstService beats Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.