FSV vs. BPY.UN, CIGI, TCN, FCR.UN, GZT, AIF, SVI, MEQ, REAX, and REAL
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), Tricon Residential (TCN), First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust (FCR.UN), Gazit Globe (GZT), Altus Group (AIF), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), Real Brokerage (REAX), and Real Matters (REAL). These companies are all part of the "real estate services" industry.
FirstService (TSE:FSV) and Brookfield Property Partners (TSE:BPY.UN) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability and media sentiment.
FirstService pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Brookfield Property Partners pays an annual dividend of C$1.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. FirstService pays out 49.8% 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. Brookfield Property Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
77.0% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of FirstService shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Brookfield Property Partners had 1 more articles in the media than FirstService. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Brookfield Property Partners and 0 mentions for FirstService. Brookfield Property Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat FirstService's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Property Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 presently has a consensus price target of C$187.33, indicating a potential downside of 9.63%. Given FirstService's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FirstService is more favorable than Brookfield Property Partners.
FirstService has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Brookfield Property Partners' net margin of 0.00%. FirstService's return on equity of 10.81% beat Brookfield Property Partners' return on equity.
Summary
FirstService beats Brookfield Property Partners on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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