FirstService (FSV) Competitors

FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) and Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (NYSE:VTMX) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Is FSV or VTMX more profitable?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a net margin of 88.52% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.58%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.15% beat Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstService	2.58%	17.15%	4.79%
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	88.52%	8.52%	5.67%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, FSV or VTMX?

Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FirstService. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, 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
FirstService	$5.31B	1.54	$134.38M	$2.89	62.41
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	$258.80M	94.99	$316.64M	$1.10	25.87

Which has more risk and volatility, FSV or VTMX?

FirstService has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate FSV or VTMX?

FirstService presently has a consensus price target of $208.40, indicating a potential upside of 15.54%. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.36%. Given FirstService's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of FSV or VTMX?

69.3% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FSV or VTMX?

FirstService received 321 more outperform votes than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta an outperform vote while only 59.74% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstService	Outperform Votes 328 59.74%	Underperform Votes 221 40.26%
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	Outperform Votes 7 63.64%	Underperform Votes 4 36.36%

Is FSV or VTMX a better dividend stock?

FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. FirstService pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays out 15.5% 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. FirstService has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. FirstService is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the media refer more to FSV or VTMX?

In the previous week, FirstService had 1 more articles in the media than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for FirstService and 2 mentions for Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's score of 0.62 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstService	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

FirstService beats Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.