ALEX vs. DEA, AIV, PMT, NTST, UMH, ALX, TWO, MFA, JBGS, and CIM
Should you be buying Alexander & Baldwin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexander & Baldwin include Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), NETSTREIT (NTST), UMH Properties (UMH), Alexander's (ALX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), MFA Financial (MFA), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), and Chimera Investment (CIM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Easterly Government Properties (NYSE:DEA) and Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE:ALEX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Easterly Government Properties currently has a consensus price target of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.11%. Alexander & Baldwin has a consensus price target of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.82%. Given Alexander & Baldwin's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Easterly Government Properties is more favorable than Alexander & Baldwin.
86.5% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alexander & Baldwin has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Easterly Government Properties. Alexander & Baldwin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Easterly Government Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Easterly Government Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Alexander & Baldwin pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Easterly Government Properties pays out 530.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexander & Baldwin pays out 145.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Easterly Government Properties has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Alexander & Baldwin has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Alexander & Baldwin had 1 more articles in the media than Easterly Government Properties. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Alexander & Baldwin and 1 mentions for Easterly Government Properties. Easterly Government Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Alexander & Baldwin's score of -0.13 indicating that Alexander & Baldwin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Easterly Government Properties has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexander & Baldwin has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alexander & Baldwin has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Alexander & Baldwin's net margin of 6.77%. Easterly Government Properties' return on equity of 4.76% beat Alexander & Baldwin's return on equity.
Alexander & Baldwin received 33 more outperform votes than Easterly Government Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave Alexander & Baldwin an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave Easterly Government Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Alexander & Baldwin beats Easterly Government Properties on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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