AIF vs. SVI, MEQ, FCR.UN, TCN, CIGI, AP.UN, KMP.UN, HR.UN, IIP.UN, and CRT.UN
Should you be buying Altus Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altus Group include StorageVault Canada (SVI), Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust (FCR.UN), Tricon Residential (TCN), Colliers International Group (CIGI), Allied Properties Real Estate Investment (AP.UN), Killam Apartment REIT (KMP.UN), H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (HR.UN), InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust (IIP.UN), and CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
StorageVault Canada (TSE:SVI) and Altus Group (TSE:AIF) are both real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
StorageVault Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Altus Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. StorageVault Canada pays out -50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Altus Group pays out 230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Altus Group has higher revenue and earnings than StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altus Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altus Group has a consensus price target of C$53.11, suggesting a potential upside of 10.23%. Given StorageVault Canada's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Altus Group is more favorable than StorageVault Canada.
23.1% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of Altus Group shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of StorageVault Canada shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Altus Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Altus Group has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Altus Group's net margin of -2.31%. StorageVault Canada's return on equity of 2.06% beat Altus Group's return on equity.
StorageVault Canada has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altus Group has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Altus Group had 1 more articles in the media than StorageVault Canada. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Altus Group and 0 mentions for StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Altus Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Altus Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Altus Group received 372 more outperform votes than StorageVault Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.70% of users gave Altus Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave StorageVault Canada an outperform vote.
Summary
Altus Group beats StorageVault Canada on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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