Granite Real Estate (GRP.U) Competitors

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

Is GRP.U or FSV a better dividend stock?

Granite Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Granite Real Estate pays out 16.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService pays out 38.1% 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. Granite Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts rate GRP.U or FSV?

FirstService has a consensus target price of $208.40, suggesting a potential upside of 17.00%. Given FirstService's stronger consensus rating and higher possible 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)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of 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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is GRP.U or FSV more profitable?

Granite Real Estate has a net margin of 54.25% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.46%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.49% beat Granite Real Estate's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Granite Real Estate	54.25%	5.66%	3.33%
FirstService	2.46%	17.49%	4.87%

Does the media prefer GRP.U or FSV?

In the previous week, Granite Real Estate had 3 more articles in the media than FirstService. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Granite Real Estate and 5 mentions for FirstService. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Granite Real Estate's score of 1.13 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Granite Real Estate	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
FirstService	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has higher valuation & 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	7.75	$263.17M	$3.62	14.49
FirstService	$5.22B	1.55	$134.38M	$2.89	61.63

Summary

FirstService beats Granite Real Estate on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.