IRT vs. CUZ, APLE, CTRE, KRC, SBRA, PECO, SLG, HHH, MAC, and GRP.U
Should you be buying Independence Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Independence Realty Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), SL Green Realty (SLG), Howard Hughes (HHH), Macerich (MAC), and Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) and Independence Realty Trust (NYSE:IRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Independence Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Independence Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Independence Realty Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Independence Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Cousins Properties pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Independence Realty Trust pays out -2,132.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Independence Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Cousins Properties had 8 more articles in the media than Independence Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cousins Properties and 3 mentions for Independence Realty Trust. Cousins Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Independence Realty Trust's score of 1.11 indicating that Independence Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Independence Realty Trust received 90 more outperform votes than Cousins Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.85% of users gave Independence Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
Cousins Properties presently has a consensus target price of $23.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.64%. Independence Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.64%. Given Cousins Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Independence Realty Trust is more favorable than Cousins Properties.
Cousins Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Independence Realty Trust. Independence Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cousins Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Cousins Properties' net margin of -1.26%. Independence Realty Trust's return on equity of 1.62% beat Cousins Properties' return on equity.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats Independence Realty Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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