SRU.UN vs. REI.UN, CHP.UN, CRT.UN, SGR.UN, PLZ.UN, SRT.UN, FSV, CIGI, CAR.UN, and SMU.UN
Should you be buying SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst include RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN), Slate Grocery REIT (SGR.UN), Plaza Retail REIT (PLZ.UN), Slate Retail REIT (SRT.UN), FirstService (FSV), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAR.UN), and Summit Industrial Income REIT (SMU.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:REI.UN) and SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (TSE:SRU.UN) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust currently has a consensus price target of C$20.86, indicating a potential upside of 20.63%. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst has a consensus price target of C$26.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. Given SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst pays an annual dividend of C$1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 652.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst pays out 103.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
35.4% of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment 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.
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust received 259 more outperform votes than SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.52% of users gave RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 50.54% of users gave SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst an outperform vote.
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst has a net margin of 33.08% compared to SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst's net margin of 4.07%. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 6.04% beat SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst's return on equity.
In the previous week, SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust beats SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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