LADR vs. SAFE, ARI, VRE, ELME, JBGS, TWO, AAT, LTC, RC, and NTST
Should you be buying Ladder Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ladder Capital include Safehold (SAFE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Veris Residential (VRE), Elme Communities (ELME), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), LTC Properties (LTC), Ready Capital (RC), and NETSTREIT (NTST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ladder Capital (NYSE:LADR) and Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Ladder Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Ladder Capital pays out 121.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Safehold pays out -157.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Ladder Capital received 81 more outperform votes than Safehold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.38% of users gave Ladder Capital an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.
Ladder Capital has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safehold has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ladder Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Safehold. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ladder Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.3% of Ladder Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Ladder Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Safehold had 14 more articles in the media than Ladder Capital. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Safehold and 1 mentions for Ladder Capital. Ladder Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Safehold's score of -0.02 indicating that Ladder Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ladder Capital has a net margin of 18.10% compared to Safehold's net margin of -7.87%. Ladder Capital's return on equity of 9.28% beat Safehold's return on equity.
Ladder Capital currently has a consensus target price of $12.63, indicating a potential upside of 9.59%. Safehold has a consensus target price of $27.22, indicating a potential upside of 34.23%. Given Safehold's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Safehold is more favorable than Ladder Capital.
Summary
Ladder Capital beats Safehold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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