ESRT vs. RC, LTC, ROIC, JBGS, ARI, LADR, ELME, VRE, CXW, and TWO
Should you be buying Empire State Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empire State Realty Trust include Ready Capital (RC), LTC Properties (LTC), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ladder Capital (LADR), Elme Communities (ELME), Veris Residential (VRE), CoreCivic (CXW), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) and Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Ready Capital currently has a consensus price target of $10.93, suggesting a potential upside of 25.18%. Empire State Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $8.33, suggesting a potential downside of 11.44%. Given Empire State Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Empire State Realty Trust.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ready Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Ready Capital pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 46.7% 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.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Empire State Realty Trust. Ready Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empire State Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ready Capital received 4 more outperform votes than Empire State Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.36% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Ready Capital has a net margin of 35.69% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of 6.51%. Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity of 7.99% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Empire State Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Ready Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust and 3 mentions for Ready Capital. Ready Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Empire State Realty Trust's score of 1.03 indicating that Empire State Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Empire State Realty Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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