MAA vs. ESS, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, EQR, AVB, HST, DOC, and AMH
Should you be buying Mid-America Apartment Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-America Apartment Communities include Essex Property Trust (ESS), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Host Hotels & Resorts (HST), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), and American Homes 4 Rent (AMH). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Essex Property Trust (NYSE:ESS) and Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Essex Property Trust presently has a consensus price target of $247.24, suggesting a potential downside of 1.03%. Mid-America Apartment Communities has a consensus price target of $143.06, suggesting a potential upside of 8.65%. Given Essex Property Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mid-America Apartment Communities is more favorable than Essex Property Trust.
Essex Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $9.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Essex Property Trust pays out 119.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays out 123.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Essex Property Trust has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Mid-America Apartment Communities has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Essex Property Trust. Mid-America Apartment Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essex Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Essex Property Trust has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Essex Property Trust has a net margin of 31.18% compared to Essex Property Trust's net margin of 25.92%. Mid-America Apartment Communities' return on equity of 9.22% beat Essex Property Trust's return on equity.
Essex Property Trust received 213 more outperform votes than Mid-America Apartment Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.90% of users gave Mid-America Apartment Communities an outperform vote while only 56.95% of users gave Essex Property Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Essex Property Trust had 11 more articles in the media than Mid-America Apartment Communities. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Essex Property Trust and 18 mentions for Mid-America Apartment Communities. Mid-America Apartment Communities' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Essex Property Trust's score of 0.27 indicating that Essex Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.5% of Essex Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Essex Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Essex Property Trust beats Mid-America Apartment Communities on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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