WFC vs. DRM, MRD, GDC, SGR.UN, AX.UN, MI.UN, MRG.UN, NXR.UN, REAL, and APR.UN
Should you be buying Wall Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wall Financial include Dream Unlimited (DRM), Melcor Developments (MRD), Genesis Land Development (GDC), Slate Grocery REIT (SGR.UN), Artis Real Estate Investment Trust Unit (AX.UN), Minto Apartment Real Estate Invt Trust (MI.UN), Morguard North American Residential REIT (MRG.UN), Nexus Industrial REIT (NXR.UN), Real Matters (REAL), and Automotive Properties Real Est Invt TR (APR.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Dream Unlimited (TSE:DRM) and Wall Financial (TSE:WFC) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Dream Unlimited received 119 more outperform votes than Wall Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.47% of users gave Dream Unlimited an outperform vote while only 72.29% of users gave Wall Financial an outperform vote.
Dream Unlimited pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Wall Financial pays an annual dividend of C$3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.9%. Dream Unlimited pays out -21.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wall Financial pays out 434.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Dream Unlimited had 1 more articles in the media than Wall Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Dream Unlimited and 0 mentions for Wall Financial. Wall Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Dream Unlimited's score of 0.00 indicating that Dream Unlimited is being referred to more favorably in the media.
20.7% of Dream Unlimited shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Wall Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.8% of Dream Unlimited shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 79.5% of Wall Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wall Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dream Unlimited. Dream Unlimited is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wall Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dream Unlimited has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wall Financial has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dream Unlimited presently has a consensus price target of C$30.00, indicating a potential upside of 57.89%. Given Wall Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dream Unlimited is more favorable than Wall Financial.
Wall Financial has a net margin of 15.22% compared to Wall Financial's net margin of -30.26%. Dream Unlimited's return on equity of 8.89% beat Wall Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Dream Unlimited beats Wall Financial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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