GRT.UN vs. DIR.UN, CHP.UN, REI.UN, TCN, BEI.UN, FCR.UN, SRU.UN, CSH.UN, HR.UN, and AIF
Should you be buying Granite Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust include Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (DIR.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Boardwalk REIT (BEI.UN), First Capital Realty (FCR.UN), SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (SRU.UN), Chartwell Retirement Residences (CSH.UN), H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (HR.UN), and Altus Group (AIF). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:GRT.UN) and Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (TSE:DIR.UN) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst had 1 more articles in the media than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst and 1 mentions for Granite Real Estate Investment Trust. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst's score of 0.25 indicating that Granite Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 26.22% compared to Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst's net margin of 23.54%. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 2.57% beat Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst's return on equity.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust presently has a consensus price target of C$88.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.96%. Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst has a consensus price target of C$16.28, indicating a potential upside of 29.70%. Given Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst is more favorable than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust.
74.9% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst received 88 more outperform votes than Granite Real Estate Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.22% of users gave Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst an outperform vote while only 57.43% of users gave Granite Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst pays an annual dividend of C$0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 152.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst pays out 194.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst. Granite Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust beats Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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