ESRT vs. ROIC, RC, LTC, RLJ, GNL, VRE, ARI, SAFE, LADR, and CXW
Should you be buying Empire State Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empire State Realty Trust include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Ready Capital (RC), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Global Net Lease (GNL), Veris Residential (VRE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Safehold (SAFE), Ladder Capital (LADR), and CoreCivic (CXW). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) and Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Empire State Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $8.33, indicating a potential downside of 13.01%. Retail Opportunity Investments has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 18.57%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Empire State Realty Trust.
Empire State Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Empire State Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Empire State Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Retail Opportunity Investments. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust and 2 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Empire State Realty Trust's score of 0.75 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 87 more outperform votes than Empire State Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 11.21% compared to Empire State Realty Trust's net margin of 6.51%. Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity of 2.85% beat Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity.
Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Empire State Realty Trust on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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