H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (HR.UN) Competitors

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:HR.UN) and Cominar REIT (TSE:CUF.UN) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HR.UN or CUF.UN?

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust received 71 more outperform votes than Cominar REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave H&R Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 45.26% of users gave Cominar REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 286 61.11%	Underperform Votes 182 38.89%
Cominar REIT	Outperform Votes 215 45.26%	Underperform Votes 260 54.74%

Is HR.UN or CUF.UN a better dividend stock?

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Cominar REIT pays an annual dividend of C$0.27 per share. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -73.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cominar REIT pays out -25.2% 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. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor HR.UN or CUF.UN?

In the previous week, H&R Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Cominar REIT'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust	Neutral
Cominar REIT	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, HR.UN or CUF.UN?

Cominar REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than H&R Real Estate Investment Trust. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cominar REIT, 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
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust	C$1.03B	2.38	-C$214.59M	-C$0.82	-11.40
Cominar REIT	C$663.77M	0.00	-C$194.79M	-C$1.07	N/A

Is HR.UN or CUF.UN more profitable?

Cominar REIT has a net margin of 0.00% compared to H&R Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -20.83%. Cominar REIT's return on equity of 0.00% beat H&R Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust	-20.83%	-4.16%	4.17%
Cominar REIT	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend HR.UN or CUF.UN?

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust presently has a consensus target price of C$11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.67%. Given H&R Real Estate Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe H&R Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Cominar REIT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Cominar REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of HR.UN or CUF.UN?

24.7% of H&R Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of H&R Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust beats Cominar REIT on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.