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Should you be buying Morguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morguard include Urbanfund (UFC), Yorkton Equity Group (YEG), Summit Industrial Income REIT (SMU.UN), Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (GRT.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (BEI.UN), Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (DIR.UN), Dream Global REIT (DRG.UN), and SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (SRU.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Urbanfund (CVE:UFC) and Morguard (TSE:MRC) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Urbanfund had 1 more articles in the media than Morguard. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Urbanfund and 0 mentions for Morguard. Morguard's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Urbanfund's score of 0.00 indicating that Urbanfund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Morguard has a consensus target price of C$135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.62%. Given Urbanfund's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Morguard is more favorable than Urbanfund.
Urbanfund has a net margin of 54.43% compared to Urbanfund's net margin of 19.45%. Morguard's return on equity of 9.00% beat Urbanfund's return on equity.
3.3% of Morguard shares are held by institutional investors. 83.9% of Urbanfund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 73.0% of Morguard shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Morguard received 77 more outperform votes than Urbanfund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.12% of users gave Morguard an outperform vote while only 66.97% of users gave Urbanfund an outperform vote.
Morguard has higher revenue and earnings than Urbanfund. Morguard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Urbanfund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urbanfund has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morguard has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urbanfund pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Morguard pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Urbanfund pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morguard pays out 2.7% 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.
Summary
Urbanfund and Morguard tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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