AIV vs. UMH, ALEX, PMT, DEA, MFA, ALX, NTST, SVC, FBRT, and TWO
Should you be buying Apartment Investment and Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Investment and Management include UMH Properties (UMH), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), MFA Financial (MFA), Alexander's (ALX), NETSTREIT (NTST), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) and UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Apartment Investment and Management received 141 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.19% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 3.55% compared to Apartment Investment and Management's net margin of -88.87%. UMH Properties' return on equity of 2.05% beat Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity.
83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, UMH Properties had 3 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for UMH Properties and 3 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Apartment Investment and Management's score of 0.77 indicating that UMH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UMH Properties has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Investment and Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UMH Properties has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.33%. Given UMH Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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