MEQ vs. SVI, AIF, FCR.UN, TCN, CRT.UN, IIP.UN, CRR.UN, NWH.UN, MRC, and KMP.UN
Should you be buying Mainstreet Equity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mainstreet Equity include StorageVault Canada (SVI), Altus Group (AIF), First Capital Realty (FCR.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN), Interrent Real Estate Investment Trust (IIP.UN), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.UN), Morguard (MRC), and Killam Apartment REIT (KMP.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
StorageVault Canada (TSE:SVI) and Mainstreet Equity (TSE:MEQ) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
StorageVault Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Mainstreet Equity pays an annual dividend of C$0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. StorageVault Canada pays out -50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mainstreet Equity pays out 0.6% 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. StorageVault Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Mainstreet Equity had 9 more articles in the media than StorageVault Canada. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Mainstreet Equity and 0 mentions for StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Mainstreet Equity's score of 0.00 indicating that Mainstreet Equity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
StorageVault Canada has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mainstreet Equity has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mainstreet Equity has lower revenue, but higher earnings than StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mainstreet Equity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
23.1% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Mainstreet Equity shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 48.9% of Mainstreet Equity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mainstreet Equity has a net margin of 74.24% compared to Mainstreet Equity's net margin of -2.31%. StorageVault Canada's return on equity of 12.47% beat Mainstreet Equity's return on equity.
Mainstreet Equity has a consensus price target of C$175.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.97%. Given StorageVault Canada's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mainstreet Equity is more favorable than StorageVault Canada.
Mainstreet Equity received 191 more outperform votes than StorageVault Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.19% of users gave Mainstreet Equity an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave StorageVault Canada an outperform vote.
Summary
Mainstreet Equity beats StorageVault Canada on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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