Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust (MRG.UN) Competitors

Northview Apartment REIT (TSE:NVU.UN) and Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:MRG.UN) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer NVU.UN or MRG.UN?

Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust received 36 more outperform votes than Northview Apartment REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.59% of users gave Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 56.11% of users gave Northview Apartment REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Northview Apartment REIT	Outperform Votes 147 56.11%	Underperform Votes 115 43.89%
Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 183 65.59%	Underperform Votes 96 34.41%

Is NVU.UN or MRG.UN a better dividend stock?

Northview Apartment REIT pays an annual dividend of C$1.63 per share. Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Northview Apartment REIT pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 19.6% 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. Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is NVU.UN or MRG.UN more profitable?

Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 40.48% compared to Northview Apartment REIT's net margin of 0.00%. Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 6.98% beat Northview Apartment REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Northview Apartment REIT	N/A	N/A	N/A
Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust	40.48%	6.98%	2.44%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of NVU.UN or MRG.UN?

5.1% of Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 26.4% of Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor NVU.UN or MRG.UN?

In the previous week, Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Northview Apartment REIT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Northview Apartment REIT. Northview Apartment REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Northview Apartment REIT	Neutral
Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, NVU.UN or MRG.UN?

Northview Apartment REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust. Northview Apartment REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust, 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
Northview Apartment REIT	C$397.19M	0.00	C$204.67M	C$2.95	N/A
Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust	C$344.99M	1.86	C$139.66M	C$3.78	4.57

Do analysts prefer NVU.UN or MRG.UN?

Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.67%. Given Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Northview Apartment REIT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Northview Apartment REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Summary

Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust beats Northview Apartment REIT on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.