GRP.U vs. FSV, CIGI, CWK, HTGC, UE, NMRK, EXPI, MMI, EFC, and AHH
Should you be buying Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple include FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Urban Edge Properties (UE), Newmark Group (NMRK), eXp World (EXPI), Marcus & Millichap (MMI), Ellington Financial (EFC), and Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple vs.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (NYSE:GRP.U) and FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
57.1% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are held by company insiders. 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.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays out 68.2% 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.
FirstService received 315 more outperform votes than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.07% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple an outperform vote.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstService. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple has a net margin of 55.97% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.19%. FirstService's return on equity of 16.68% beat Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's return on equity.
In the previous week, FirstService had 2 more articles in the media than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FirstService and 7 mentions for Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's score of 0.19 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FirstService has a consensus target price of $198.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.98%. Given FirstService's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple.
Summary
FirstService beats Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GRP.U) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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