BN vs. VTMX, INVH, BEKE, FSV, CIGI, GRP.U, HTGC, CWK, UE, and NMRK
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (VTMX), Invitation Homes (INVH), KE (BEKE), FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Urban Edge Properties (UE), and Newmark Group (NMRK). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (NYSE:VTMX) and Brookfield (NYSE:BN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.98%. Brookfield has a consensus target price of $51.59, suggesting a potential upside of 4.50%. Given Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is more favorable than Brookfield.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Brookfield pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta pays out 12.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield pays out 52.5% 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. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Brookfield had 10 more articles in the media than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Brookfield and 4 mentions for Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. Brookfield's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's score of -0.52 indicating that Brookfield is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield received 35 more outperform votes than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta an outperform vote while only 73.58% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote.
6.9% of Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Brookfield shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Brookfield shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield has higher revenue and earnings than Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta has a net margin of 179.79% compared to Brookfield's net margin of 1.13%. Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta's return on equity of 17.11% beat Brookfield's return on equity.
Summary
Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta and Brookfield tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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