SVI vs. MEQ, AIF, FCR.UN, TCN, IIP.UN, KMP.UN, CRT.UN, AP.UN, CRR.UN, and NWH.UN
Should you be buying StorageVault Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StorageVault Canada include Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), Altus Group (AIF), First Capital Realty (FCR.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Interrent Real Estate Investment Trust (IIP.UN), Killam Apartment REIT (KMP.UN), CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN), Allied Properties Real Estate Investment (AP.UN), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), and NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Mainstreet Equity (TSE:MEQ) and StorageVault Canada (TSE:SVI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Mainstreet Equity pays an annual dividend of C$0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. StorageVault Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Mainstreet Equity pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. StorageVault Canada pays out -50.0% 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. StorageVault Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
19.2% of Mainstreet Equity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.1% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by institutional investors. 48.9% of Mainstreet Equity shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.3% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mainstreet Equity has a net margin of 74.24% compared to Mainstreet Equity's net margin of -2.31%. StorageVault Canada's return on equity of 12.47% beat Mainstreet Equity's return on equity.
Mainstreet Equity presently has a consensus price target of C$175.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.39%. Given StorageVault Canada's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mainstreet Equity is more favorable than StorageVault Canada.
Mainstreet Equity has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StorageVault Canada has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mainstreet Equity received 191 more outperform votes than StorageVault Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.19% of users gave Mainstreet Equity an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave StorageVault Canada an outperform vote.
Mainstreet Equity has higher earnings, but lower revenue than StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mainstreet Equity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mainstreet Equity had 6 more articles in the media than StorageVault Canada. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Mainstreet Equity and 0 mentions for StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Mainstreet Equity's score of 0.00 indicating that Mainstreet Equity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Mainstreet Equity beats StorageVault Canada on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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