GRT.UN vs. SMU.UN, DIR.UN, WIR.U, NXR.UN, FSV, CAR.UN, CIGI, REI.UN, CHP.UN, and TCN
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), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAR.UN), Colliers International Group (CIGI), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), and Tricon Residential (TCN). 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, Summit Industrial Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.84 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.
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.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$87.70, suggesting a potential upside of 29.83%.
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.
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.
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.
30.6% of Summit Industrial Income REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Summit Industrial Income REIT 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, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust beats Summit Industrial Income REIT on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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