AX.UN vs. CUF.UN, APR.UN, MRT.UN, DRA.UN, PRV.UN, FRO.UN, TNT.UN, MR.UN, RCO.UN, and HRR.UN
Should you be buying Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit include Cominar REIT (CUF.UN), Automotive Properties Real Est Invt TR (APR.UN), Morguard Real Estate Inv. (MRT.UN), Dream Hard Asset Alternatives Trust (DRA.UN), PRO Real Estate Investment Trust (PRV.UN), Fronsac Real Estate Investment Trust (FRO.UN), True North Commercial REIT (TNT.UN), Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust (MR.UN), Middlefield Can-Global REIT Income Fund (RCO.UN), and Australian REIT Income Fund (HRR.UN). These companies are all part of the "reit - diversified" industry.
Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit vs. Its Competitors
Cominar REIT (TSE:CUF.UN) and Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit (TSE:AX.UN) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Cominar REIT has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit's net margin of -114.89%. Cominar REIT's return on equity of 0.00% beat Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit's return on equity.
19.8% of Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit shares are held by company 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.
Cominar REIT pays an annual dividend of C$0.27 per share. Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Cominar REIT pays out -25.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit pays out -93.8% 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. Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit had 3 more articles in the media than Cominar REIT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit and 0 mentions for Cominar REIT. Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Cominar REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit has a consensus target price of C$7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.97%. Given Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit is more favorable than Cominar REIT.
Cominar REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit. Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cominar REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit beats Cominar REIT on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:AX.UN) was last updated on 9/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
