GRT.UN vs. SMU.UN, DIR.UN, WIR.U, NXR.UN, FSV, CIGI, CAR.UN, REI.UN, TCN, and CHP.UN
Should you be buying Granite Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust include Summit Industrial Income REIT (SMU.UN), Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (DIR.UN), WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment (WIR.U), Nexus Industrial REIT (NXR.UN), FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAR.UN), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), and Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Summit Industrial Income REIT (TSE:SMU.UN) and Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:GRT.UN) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Summit Industrial Income REIT pays an annual dividend of C$0.57 per share. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Summit Industrial Income REIT pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 96.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Granite Real Estate Investment Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Summit Industrial Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Granite Real Estate Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Summit Industrial Income REIT. Summit Industrial Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Granite Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Industrial Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust. Summit Industrial Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 40.71% compared to Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Summit Industrial Income REIT's return on equity of 3.97% beat Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
30.6% of Summit Industrial Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Summit Industrial Income REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$87.70, suggesting a potential upside of 31.25%.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust received 178 more outperform votes than Summit Industrial Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.06% of users gave Granite Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave Summit Industrial Income REIT an outperform vote.
Summary
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust beats Summit Industrial Income REIT on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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