CIGI vs. FSV, TCN, FCR.UN, AIF, CAR.UN, REI.UN, GRT.UN, CHP.UN, BEI.UN, and DIR.UN
Should you be buying Colliers International Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colliers International Group include FirstService (FSV), Tricon Residential (TCN), First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust (FCR.UN), Altus Group (AIF), 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), and Dream Industrial Real Estate Invest Trst (DIR.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 contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
73.4% of Colliers International Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Colliers International Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of FirstService shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Colliers International Group presently has a consensus target price of C$150.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.88%. FirstService has a consensus target price of C$187.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.31%. Given Colliers International Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Colliers International Group is more favorable than FirstService.
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.
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 0.81 beat Colliers International Group's score of 0.59 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
Colliers International Group has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstService has a beta of 0.92, indicating 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.
Colliers International Group has a net margin of 2.25% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.03%. FirstService's return on equity of 10.81% beat Colliers International Group's return on equity.
Summary
FirstService beats Colliers International Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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