PLZ.UN vs. CRT.UN, SGR.UN, SRT.UN, REI.UN, CHP.UN, SRU.UN, MEQ, CRR.UN, NWH.UN, and MRC
Should you be buying Plaza Retail REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plaza Retail REIT include CT Real Estate Investment Trust (CRT.UN), Slate Grocery REIT (SGR.UN), Slate Retail REIT (SRT.UN), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI.UN), Choice Properties Real Est Invstmnt Trst (CHP.UN), SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trst (SRU.UN), Mainstreet Equity (MEQ), Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust (CRR.UN), NorthWest Health Prop Real Est Inv Trust (NWH.UN), and Morguard (MRC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:CRT.UN) and Plaza Retail REIT (TSE:PLZ.UN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of C$0.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Plaza Retail REIT pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. CT Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 97.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Plaza Retail REIT pays out 140.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plaza Retail REIT has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Plaza Retail REIT received 43 more outperform votes than CT Real Estate Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.89% of users gave Plaza Retail REIT an outperform vote while only 46.18% of users gave CT Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Plaza Retail REIT. CT Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plaza Retail REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust presently has a consensus price target of C$15.93, suggesting a potential upside of 17.47%. Plaza Retail REIT has a consensus price target of C$4.19, suggesting a potential upside of 15.68%. Given Plaza Retail REIT's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe CT Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Plaza Retail REIT.
In the previous week, Plaza Retail REIT had 1 more articles in the media than CT Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Plaza Retail REIT and 2 mentions for CT Real Estate Investment Trust. Plaza Retail REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat CT Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.39 indicating that CT Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CT Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of 21.36% compared to CT Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of 18.21%. Plaza Retail REIT's return on equity of 6.71% beat CT Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
15.4% of CT Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Plaza Retail REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.5% of CT Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.4% of Plaza Retail REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CT Real Estate Investment Trust beats Plaza Retail REIT on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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