INO.UN vs. SOT.UN, MR.UN, HOT.UN, MPC, IVQ, IVQ.U, TNT.UN, BRE, D.UN, and AP.UN
Should you be buying Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust include Slate Office REIT (SOT.UN), Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust (MR.UN), American Hotel Income Properties REIT (HOT.UN), Madison Pacific Properties (MPC), Invesque (IVQ), Invesque (IVQ.U), True North Commercial REIT (TNT.UN), Bridgemarq Real Estate Services (BRE), Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trst (D.UN), and Allied Properties Real Estate Investment (AP.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Slate Office REIT (TSE:SOT.UN) and Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:INO.UN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Slate Office REIT has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Slate Office REIT had 5 more articles in the media than Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Slate Office REIT and 0 mentions for Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust. Slate Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust's score of -0.51 indicating that Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Slate Office REIT has a net margin of -57.24% compared to Slate Office REIT's net margin of -134.09%. Slate Office REIT's return on equity of -11.90% beat Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
5.0% of Slate Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 18.4% of Slate Office REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Slate Office REIT presently has a consensus price target of C$1.22, suggesting a potential upside of 79.62%. Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$2.38, suggesting a potential upside of 112.05%. Given Slate Office REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Slate Office REIT.
Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Slate Office REIT. Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Slate Office REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Slate Office REIT pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.6%. Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 36.6%. Slate Office REIT pays out -8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -38.3% 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. Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Slate Office REIT received 217 more outperform votes than Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.91% of users gave Slate Office REIT an outperform vote while only 60.58% of users gave Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust beats Slate Office REIT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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