Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (GRT.UN) Competitors

FirstService (TSE:FSV) and Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:GRT.UN) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of FSV or GRT.UN?

77.9% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of FirstService shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer FSV or GRT.UN?

FirstService presently has a consensus price target of C$194.00, suggesting a potential downside of 26.41%. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$89.72, suggesting a potential upside of 31.71%. Given Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Granite Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than FirstService.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is FSV or GRT.UN a better dividend stock?

FirstService pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. FirstService pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 90.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has more volatility and risk, FSV or GRT.UN?

FirstService has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor FSV or GRT.UN?

In the previous week, FirstService had 5 more articles in the media than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for FirstService and 3 mentions for Granite Real Estate Investment Trust. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat FirstService's score of 0.97 indicating that Granite Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstService	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FSV or GRT.UN?

FirstService received 158 more outperform votes than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.93% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 56.23% of users gave Granite Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstService	Outperform Votes 361 72.93%	Underperform Votes 134 27.07%
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 203 56.23%	Underperform Votes 158 43.77%

Which has higher earnings & valuation, FSV or GRT.UN?

Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FirstService. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust 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
FirstService	C$4.65B	2.55	C$80.28M	C$2.43	108.49
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust	C$540.51M	7.91	C$229.71M	C$3.63	18.77

Is FSV or GRT.UN more profitable?

Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 42.50% compared to FirstService's net margin of 1.73%. FirstService's return on equity of 9.46% beat Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstService	1.73%	9.46%	4.67%
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust	42.50%	4.28%	2.82%

Summary

FirstService and Granite Real Estate Investment Trust tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.