FCR.UN vs. FSV, CIGI, TCN, AIF, GZT, SVI, MEQ, REAL, REAX, and BRE
Should you be buying First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust include FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Tricon Residential (TCN), Altus Group (AIF), Gazit Globe (GZT), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), Real Matters (REAL), Real Brokerage (REAX), and Bridgemarq Real Estate Services (BRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:FCR.UN) and FirstService (TSE:FSV) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust received 186 more outperform votes than FirstService when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.02% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 67.74% of users gave First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -168.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService pays out 49.8% 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. First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
FirstService has higher revenue and earnings than First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust. First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust currently has a consensus price target of C$18.08, suggesting a potential upside of 10.95%. FirstService has a consensus price target of C$187.33, suggesting a potential downside of 22.80%. Given First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than FirstService.
FirstService has a net margin of 2.03% compared to First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -13.95%. FirstService's return on equity of 10.81% beat First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, FirstService had 8 more articles in the media than First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FirstService and 1 mentions for First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust. First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat FirstService's score of -0.27 indicating that First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
43.5% of First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of FirstService shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstService has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FirstService beats First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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