SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust (OTCMKTS:CWYUF – Get Free Report) and Prosus (OTCMKTS:PROSY – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Volatility and Risk
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prosus has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust and Prosus’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust | 53.88% | 7.12% | 3.78% |
| Prosus | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings for SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust and Prosus, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Prosus | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust presently has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 56.34%. Given SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust is more favorable than Prosus.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust and Prosus’ gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust | $618.20 million | 4.88 | $377.85 million | $1.94 | 8.74 |
| Prosus | $5.77 billion | 36.17 | $10.11 billion | N/A | N/A |
Prosus has higher revenue and earnings than SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
0.0% of Prosus shares are held by institutional investors. 20.9% of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Prosus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dividends
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Prosus pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust pays out 70.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
About SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust
SmartCentres is one of Canada’s largest fully integrated REITs, with a best-in-class and growing mixed-use portfolio featuring 191 strategically located properties in communities across the country. SmartCentres has approximately $12.0 billion in assets and owns 35.0 million square feet of income producing value-oriented retail and first-class office properties with 98.5% in place and committed occupancy, on 3,500 acres of owned land across Canada.
About Prosus
Prosus N.V. engages in the e-commerce and internet businesses. The company operates internet platforms, such as classifieds, payments and fintech, food delivery, education technology, etail, health, ventures, social, and other internet platforms. It has operations in Latin and North America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Myriad International Holdings N.V. and changed its name to Prosus N.V. in August 2019. Prosus N.V. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Prosus N.V. operates as a subsidiary of Naspers Limited.
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