BROOKFIELD CORPORATION vs CBRE GROUP, INC., two REIT stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Neither of these is a traditional rent-collecting REIT: Brookfield is a diversified owner-and-manager of infrastructure, real estate, and private assets, CBRE the world's largest commercial-real-estate services and brokerage firm. CBRE's reported economics are cleaner, a 14.8% return on equity and 3.11% net margin on transaction-and-services fees, against Brookfield's 1.95% return on equity, its GAAP earnings depressed by the timing of asset marks and carried interest. CBRE trades at 31.4 times earnings, Brookfield at 84. CBRE carries 0.89 turns of debt, Brookfield none shown. The pair prices an asset owner-manager against a real-estate services firm; CBRE earns fees on transactions it never owns, Brookfield compounds capital it deploys, and neither fits the dividend-REIT mold the sector tag implies.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | BN | CBRE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $42.87 | $137.40 |
| Market cap | $96.3B | $40.8B |
| Sector | REIT | REIT |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 84.1 | 31.4 |
| P/B | 0.58 | 4.61 |
| P/S | 1.28 | 0.97 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.7 | 17.1 |
| Revenue growth | +0.7% | +15.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 4.8% |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 3.1% |
| Return on equity | 1.9% | 14.8% |
| Return on assets | 0.6% | 4.3% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 8.9% |
| FCF yield | -3.9% | 2.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.89 |
| Current ratio | — | 1.08 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 0.31 | 3.12 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 3 / 9 |
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