FSV vs. CIGI, TCN, FCR.UN, CAR.UN, REI.UN, GRT.UN, CHP.UN, BEI.UN, DIR.UN, and SRU.UN
Should you be buying FirstService stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstService include Colliers International Group (CIGI), Tricon Residential (TCN), First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust (FCR.UN), Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAR.UN), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (GRT.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), Boardwalk REIT (BEI.UN), Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (DIR.UN), and SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (SRU.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Colliers International Group (TSE:CIGI) and FirstService (TSE:FSV) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Colliers International Group has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstService has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Colliers International Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstService. Colliers International Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FirstService had 3 more articles in the media than Colliers International Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for FirstService and 1 mentions for Colliers International Group. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Colliers International Group's score of 0.90 indicating that Colliers International Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FirstService received 186 more outperform votes than Colliers International Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.65% of users gave Colliers International Group an outperform vote while only 73.02% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote.
73.4% of Colliers International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of Colliers International Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of FirstService shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Colliers International Group has a net margin of 2.25% compared to Colliers International Group's net margin of 2.03%. Colliers International Group's return on equity of 10.81% beat FirstService's return on equity.
Colliers International Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Colliers International Group pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService pays out 49.3% 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.
Colliers International Group currently has a consensus target price of C$150.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.80%. FirstService has a consensus target price of C$187.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.06%. Given FirstService's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Colliers International Group is more favorable than FirstService.
Summary
FirstService beats Colliers International Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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