Global Medical REIT (GMRE) Competitors

CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and Global Medical REIT (NYSE:GMRE) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.

Is CIXXF or GMRE a better dividend stock?

CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Global Medical REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. CI Financial pays out -67.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Medical REIT pays out 365.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CIXXF or GMRE?

57.5% of Global Medical REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Global Medical REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CIXXF or GMRE?

Global Medical REIT received 282 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.66% of users gave Global Medical REIT an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CI Financial	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 5 100.00%
Global Medical REIT	Outperform Votes 282 63.66%	Underperform Votes 161 36.34%

Does the media favor CIXXF or GMRE?

In the previous week, Global Medical REIT had 1 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Global Medical REIT and 2 mentions for CI Financial. Global Medical REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat CI Financial's score of 0.14 indicating that Global Medical REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CI Financial	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Global Medical REIT	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has higher valuation & earnings, CIXXF or GMRE?

Global Medical REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Medical REIT, 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
CI Financial	$2.03B	1.13	$3.72M	-$0.88	-17.32
Global Medical REIT	$137.70M	4.51	$20.61M	$0.23	41.13

Do analysts prefer CIXXF or GMRE?

Global Medical REIT has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.28%. Given Global Medical REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Global Medical REIT is more favorable than CI Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CI Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Global Medical REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more volatility and risk, CIXXF or GMRE?

CI Financial has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Medical REIT has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CIXXF or GMRE more profitable?

Global Medical REIT has a net margin of 4.18% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -1.90%. CI Financial's return on equity of 50.83% beat Global Medical REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CI Financial	-1.90%	50.83%	5.21%
Global Medical REIT	4.18%	1.09%	0.45%

Summary

Global Medical REIT beats CI Financial on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.