MR.UN vs. TNT.UN, MPC, INO.UN, HOT.UN, SOT.UN, IVQ, IVQ.U, BRE, BTB.UN, and MRT.UN
Should you be buying Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust include True North Commercial REIT (TNT.UN), Madison Pacific Properties (MPC), Inovalis Real Estate Investment Trust (INO.UN), American Hotel Income Properties REIT (HOT.UN), Slate Office REIT (SOT.UN), Invesque (IVQ), Invesque (IVQ.U), Bridgemarq Real Estate Services (BRE), BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (BTB.UN), and Morguard Real Estate Inv. (MRT.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
True North Commercial REIT (TSE:TNT.UN) and Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:MR.UN) 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.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust received 10 more outperform votes than True North Commercial REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 49.18% of users gave True North Commercial REIT an outperform vote while only 48.08% of users gave Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
True North Commercial REIT has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
True North Commercial REIT presently has a consensus price target of C$9.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.28%. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has a consensus price target of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.97%. Given True North Commercial REIT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than True North Commercial REIT.
1.0% of True North Commercial REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.4% of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of True North Commercial REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust 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.
True North Commercial REIT pays an annual dividend of C$1.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.2%. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.9%. True North Commercial REIT pays out -66.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. True North Commercial REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, True North Commercial REIT and True North Commercial REIT both had 1 articles in the media. True North Commercial REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.46 indicating that Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than True North Commercial REIT. True North Commercial REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 22.07% compared to Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -30.73%. True North Commercial REIT's return on equity of 8.40% beat Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust beats True North Commercial REIT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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