FSV vs. BPY.UN, CIGI, GRT.UN, TCN, SGD, REAX, AXR, AEI, BPO, and MMI
Should you be buying FirstService stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstService include Brookfield Property Partners (BPY.UN), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (GRT.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Snowline Gold (SGD), Real Brokerage (REAX), Alexco Resource (AXR), Arsenal Energy (AEI), Brookfield Office Properties (BPO), and Marcus & Millichap (MMI). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
FirstService (TSE:FSV) and Brookfield Property Partners (TSE:BPY.UN) are both large-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
FirstService received 235 more outperform votes than Brookfield Property Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.02% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote while only 72.67% of users gave Brookfield Property Partners an outperform vote.
FirstService has a net margin of 1.73% compared to Brookfield Property Partners' net margin of 0.00%. FirstService's return on equity of 9.46% beat Brookfield Property Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, FirstService's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Brookfield Property Partners'average media sentiment score.
77.9% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.3% of FirstService shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
FirstService pays an annual dividend of C$1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Brookfield Property Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.33 per share. FirstService pays out 56.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Property Partners pays out -64.2% 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 higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Property Partners. Brookfield Property Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FirstService currently has a consensus price target of C$187.33, suggesting a potential downside of 21.98%.
Summary
FirstService beats Brookfield Property Partners on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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