SVI vs. MEQ, AIF, FCR.UN, TCN, IIP.UN, KMP.UN, CRT.UN, AP.UN, CRR.UN, and NWH.UN
Should you be buying StorageVault Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StorageVault Canada include Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), Altus Group (AIF), First Capital Realty (FCR.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Interrent Real Estate Investment Trust (IIP.UN), Killam Apartment REIT (KMP.UN), CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN), Allied Properties Real Estate Investment (AP.UN), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), and NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.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 investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
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. Mainstreet Equity's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat StorageVault Canada'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 stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mainstreet Equity has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mainstreet Equity has a net margin of 74.24% compared to StorageVault Canada's net margin of -2.31%. Mainstreet Equity's return on equity of 12.47% beat StorageVault Canada's return on equity.
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.
Mainstreet Equity has a consensus target price of C$175.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.97%. Given Mainstreet Equity's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mainstreet Equity is more favorable than StorageVault Canada.
23.1% of StorageVault Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.2% of Mainstreet Equity shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.3% of StorageVault Canada shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.9% of Mainstreet Equity shares are owned by 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.
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.
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.
Summary
Mainstreet Equity beats StorageVault Canada on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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