UE vs. FSV, CIGI, TRNO, IIPR, CWK, GTY, FOR, KW, CMTG, and EFC
Should you be buying Urban Edge Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urban Edge Properties include FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Terreno Realty (TRNO), Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Getty Realty (GTY), Forestar Group (FOR), Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), and Ellington Financial (EFC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) and Urban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Urban Edge Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FirstService. 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.
FirstService presently has a consensus price target of $188.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.38%. Urban Edge Properties has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.81%. Given Urban Edge Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Urban Edge Properties.
69.4% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, FirstService had 10 more articles in the media than Urban Edge Properties. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for FirstService and 7 mentions for Urban Edge Properties. Urban Edge Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat FirstService's score of 0.67 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstService has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urban Edge Properties has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urban Edge Properties has a net margin of 63.27% compared to Urban Edge Properties' net margin of 2.02%. FirstService's return on equity of 24.36% beat Urban Edge Properties' return on equity.
FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Urban Edge Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. FirstService pays out 49.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Urban Edge Properties pays out 29.6% 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. Urban Edge Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
FirstService received 117 more outperform votes than Urban Edge Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.30% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Urban Edge Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Urban Edge Properties beats FirstService on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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