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Should you be buying Melcor Developments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melcor Developments include Dream Unlimited (DRM), Wall Financial (WFC), Genesis Land Development (GDC), Halmont Properties (HMT), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Morguard (MRC), NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.UN), Slate Grocery REIT (SGR.UN), and Pure Multi-Family REIT (RUF.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Melcor Developments vs.
Melcor Developments (TSE:MRD) and Dream Unlimited (TSE:DRM) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
8.8% of Melcor Developments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.3% of Dream Unlimited shares are owned by institutional investors. 65.2% of Melcor Developments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of Dream Unlimited shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Melcor Developments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dream Unlimited. Dream Unlimited is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Melcor Developments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dream Unlimited has a consensus target price of C$28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 58.19%. Given Dream Unlimited's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dream Unlimited is more favorable than Melcor Developments.
Melcor Developments has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dream Unlimited has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Melcor Developments pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Dream Unlimited pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Melcor Developments pays out 116.8% 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 Unlimited pays out -112.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dream Unlimited is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Dream Unlimited had 1 more articles in the media than Melcor Developments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dream Unlimited and 0 mentions for Melcor Developments. Dream Unlimited's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Melcor Developments' score of 0.00 indicating that Dream Unlimited is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melcor Developments received 73 more outperform votes than Dream Unlimited when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.00% of users gave Dream Unlimited an outperform vote while only 69.32% of users gave Melcor Developments an outperform vote.
Melcor Developments has a net margin of 3.77% compared to Dream Unlimited's net margin of -4.18%. Melcor Developments' return on equity of 0.94% beat Dream Unlimited's return on equity.
Summary
Dream Unlimited beats Melcor Developments on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (TSE:MRD) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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