AIRC vs. HR, RITM, ADC, STWD, FR, VNO, COLD, STAG, RHP, and KRG
Should you be buying Apartment Income REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Income REIT include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Rithm Capital (RITM), Agree Realty (ADC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), STAG Industrial (STAG), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), and Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Apartment Income REIT presently has a consensus price target of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 5.21%. Healthcare Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $17.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.96%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Healthcare Realty Trust is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -167.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Healthcare Realty Trust received 312 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.30% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 77.37% compared to Healthcare Realty Trust's net margin of -20.71%. Apartment Income REIT's return on equity of 26.29% beat Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Healthcare Realty Trust had 16 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust and 2 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Healthcare Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Apartment Income REIT's score of 0.44 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Healthcare Realty Trust beats Apartment Income REIT on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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