Granite Real Estate (GRP.U) Competitors

Granite Real Estate (NYSE:GRP.U) and FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, GRP.U or FSV?

Granite Real Estate has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstService. Granite Real Estate 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
Granite Real Estate	$415.37M	8.35	$263.17M	$3.86	14.65
FirstService	$5.22B	1.78	$134.38M	$3.12	65.52

Do analysts recommend GRP.U or FSV?

FirstService has a consensus target price of $217.75, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Given FirstService's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Granite Real Estate.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Granite Real Estate	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is GRP.U or FSV more profitable?

Granite Real Estate has a net margin of 56.61% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.61%. FirstService's return on equity of 18.24% beat Granite Real Estate's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Granite Real Estate	56.61%	6.01%	3.52%
FirstService	2.61%	18.24%	5.17%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in GRP.U or FSV?

57.1% of Granite Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Granite Real Estate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer GRP.U or FSV?

In the previous week, FirstService had 16 more articles in the media than Granite Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for FirstService and 0 mentions for Granite Real Estate. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Granite Real Estate's score of 0.00 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Granite Real Estate	Neutral
FirstService	Positive

Is GRP.U or FSV a better dividend stock?

Granite Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Granite Real Estate pays out 5.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService pays out 35.3% 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 increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. FirstService is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

FirstService beats Granite Real Estate on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.