Urban Edge Properties (UE) Competitors

FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) and Urban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Which has more risk and volatility, FSV or UE?

FirstService has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Edge Properties has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in FSV or UE?

69.3% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend FSV or UE?

FirstService currently has a consensus target price of $206.33, suggesting a potential upside of 19.24%. Urban Edge Properties has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.15%. Given Urban Edge Properties' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Urban Edge Properties is more favorable than FirstService.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Urban Edge Properties	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is FSV or UE more profitable?

Urban Edge Properties has a net margin of 16.31% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.58%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.15% beat Urban Edge Properties' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstService	2.58%	17.15%	4.79%
Urban Edge Properties	16.31%	5.59%	2.24%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FSV or UE?

FirstService received 123 more outperform votes than Urban Edge Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.74% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 44.57% of users gave Urban Edge Properties an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstService	Outperform Votes 328 59.74%	Underperform Votes 221 40.26%
Urban Edge Properties	Outperform Votes 205 44.57%	Underperform Votes 255 55.43%

Is FSV or UE a better dividend stock?

FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Urban Edge Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. FirstService pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Urban Edge Properties pays out 118.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FirstService has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Urban Edge Properties has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, FSV or UE?

FirstService has higher revenue and earnings than Urban Edge Properties. Urban Edge Properties 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	1.48	$134.38M	$2.89	59.88
Urban Edge Properties	$453.51M	4.91	$72.56M	$0.64	27.69

Does the media refer more to FSV or UE?

In the previous week, FirstService had 6 more articles in the media than Urban Edge Properties. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for FirstService and 5 mentions for Urban Edge Properties. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Urban Edge Properties' score of 1.27 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstService	9 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Urban Edge Properties	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

FirstService beats Urban Edge Properties on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.