CRT.UN vs. SGR.UN, PLZ.UN, SRU.UN, CHP.UN, REI.UN, CRR.UN, MEQ, NWH.UN, MRC, and IIP.UN
Should you be buying CT Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CT Real Estate Investment Trust include Slate Grocery REIT (SGR.UN), Plaza Retail REIT (PLZ.UN), SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (SRU.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.UN), Morguard (MRC), and InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust (IIP.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Slate Grocery REIT (TSE:SGR.UN) and CT Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:CRT.UN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Slate Grocery REIT has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CT Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 21.36% compared to CT Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of 18.14%. Slate Grocery REIT's return on equity of 6.71% beat CT Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, CT Real Estate Investment Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Slate Grocery REIT. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CT Real Estate Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Slate Grocery REIT. Slate Grocery REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat CT Real Estate Investment Trust's score of -0.39 indicating that CT Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust received 125 more outperform votes than Slate Grocery REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.18% of users gave CT Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 9.52% of users gave Slate Grocery REIT an outperform vote.
13.1% of Slate Grocery REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.5% of CT Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Slate Grocery REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.5% of CT Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Slate Grocery REIT pays an annual dividend of C$1.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. CT Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Slate Grocery REIT pays out 138.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CT Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 97.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Slate Grocery REIT currently has a consensus target price of C$9.13, indicating a potential downside of 16.67%. CT Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus target price of C$15.93, indicating a potential upside of 14.76%. Given Slate Grocery REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CT Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Slate Grocery REIT.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Slate Grocery REIT. Slate Grocery REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CT Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CT Real Estate Investment Trust beats Slate Grocery REIT on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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