GRP.U vs. FSV, CIGI, MRP, HTGC, CURB, CWK, UE, NMRK, TSLX, and EXPI
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), Millrose Properties (MRP), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Curbline Properties (CURB), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Urban Edge Properties (UE), Newmark Group (NMRK), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), and eXp World (EXPI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple vs.
FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) and Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (NYSE:GRP.U) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
FirstService currently has a consensus target price of $201.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.60%. Given FirstService's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple.
FirstService has higher revenue and earnings than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. 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.
69.3% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are owned 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.
FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays an annual dividend of $1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. FirstService pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays out 32.9% 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. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple has a net margin of 55.97% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.58%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.15% beat Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's return on equity.
In the previous week, FirstService had 6 more articles in the media than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FirstService and 3 mentions for Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's score of -0.06 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstService received 316 more outperform votes than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.18% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple an outperform vote.
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 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
