OLP vs. WSR, AAT, UHT, CLDT, PKST, LAND, FPI, ORC, GMRE, and CTO
Should you be buying One Liberty Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of One Liberty Properties include Whitestone REIT (WSR), American Assets Trust (AAT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Gladstone Land (LAND), Farmland Partners (FPI), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), and CTO Realty Growth (CTO).
One Liberty Properties (NYSE:OLP) and Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
One Liberty Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Whitestone REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. One Liberty Properties pays out 130.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitestone REIT pays out 131.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. One Liberty Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
One Liberty Properties has a net margin of 32.67% compared to Whitestone REIT's net margin of 13.05%. One Liberty Properties' return on equity of 9.56% beat Whitestone REIT's return on equity.
One Liberty Properties has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Whitestone REIT has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
One Liberty Properties currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.41%. Whitestone REIT has a consensus price target of $13.63, indicating a potential upside of 17.46%. Given Whitestone REIT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Whitestone REIT is more favorable than One Liberty Properties.
Whitestone REIT received 113 more outperform votes than One Liberty Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave Whitestone REIT an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave One Liberty Properties an outperform vote.
36.2% of One Liberty Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 23.9% of One Liberty Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
One Liberty Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Whitestone REIT. One Liberty Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Whitestone REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Whitestone REIT had 11 more articles in the media than One Liberty Properties. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Whitestone REIT and 1 mentions for One Liberty Properties. One Liberty Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Whitestone REIT's score of -0.08 indicating that One Liberty Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
One Liberty Properties beats Whitestone REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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