AAT vs. SPHR, RLJ, BDN, VET, WSR, OLP, ABR, LXP, CUZ, and PECO
Should you be buying American Assets Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Assets Trust include Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Vermilion Energy (VET), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), Cousins Properties (CUZ), and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO).
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) and American Assets Trust (NYSE:AAT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Sphere Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than American Assets Trust. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 40.36% compared to Sphere Entertainment's net margin of 11.42%. American Assets Trust's return on equity of 8.91% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of American Assets Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of American Assets Trust shares are owned by 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.
Sphere Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $35.60, indicating a potential downside of 10.49%. American Assets Trust has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.63%. Given Sphere Entertainment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe American Assets Trust is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
In the previous week, American Assets Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Sphere Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for American Assets Trust and 1 mentions for Sphere Entertainment. American Assets Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Sphere Entertainment's score of 0.49 indicating that Sphere Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Assets Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Assets Trust received 367 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave American Assets Trust an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
Summary
Sphere Entertainment beats American Assets Trust on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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