PDM vs. ROOT, CGBD, HUT, SBSI, BRKL, MQY, BFS, NXRT, BRSP, and WRLD
Should you be buying Piedmont Office Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Office Realty Trust include Root (ROOT), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Hut 8 (HUT), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), Saul Centers (BFS), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), and World Acceptance (WRLD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Root (NASDAQ:ROOT) and Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE:PDM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Root presently has a consensus price target of $21.88, suggesting a potential downside of 66.03%. Given Piedmont Office Realty Trust's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Root is more favorable than Piedmont Office Realty Trust.
Root has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Office Realty Trust has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust has a net margin of -8.38% compared to Piedmont Office Realty Trust's net margin of -32.40%. Root's return on equity of -2.72% beat Piedmont Office Realty Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Piedmont Office Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Root. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Piedmont Office Realty Trust and 4 mentions for Root. Root's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Piedmont Office Realty Trust's score of 0.20 indicating that Piedmont Office Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Root. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Root, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.8% of Root shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of Root shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust 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.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust received 302 more outperform votes than Root when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.85% of users gave Piedmont Office Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 24.39% of users gave Root an outperform vote.
Summary
Piedmont Office Realty Trust beats Root on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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