ABR vs. LXP, OUT, CDP, HIW, NHI, BNL, DEI, MPW, FCPT, and NSA
Should you be buying Arbor Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arbor Realty Trust include LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), Highwoods Properties (HIW), National Health Investors (NHI), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT), and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) and Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LXP Industrial Trust presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.72%. Arbor Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $14.71, indicating a potential upside of 14.73%. Given Arbor Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LXP Industrial Trust is more favorable than Arbor Realty Trust.
Arbor Realty Trust received 16 more outperform votes than LXP Industrial Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.82% of users gave Arbor Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Arbor Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.4%. LXP Industrial Trust pays out 650.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arbor Realty Trust pays out 97.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LXP Industrial Trust has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Arbor Realty Trust has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Arbor Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Arbor Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than LXP Industrial Trust. Arbor Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LXP Industrial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arbor Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than LXP Industrial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Arbor Realty Trust and 6 mentions for LXP Industrial Trust. Arbor Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat LXP Industrial Trust's score of 0.85 indicating that LXP Industrial Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arbor Realty Trust has a net margin of 27.90% compared to Arbor Realty Trust's net margin of 8.92%. LXP Industrial Trust's return on equity of 18.12% beat Arbor Realty Trust's return on equity.
LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Arbor Realty Trust beats LXP Industrial Trust on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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