MAA vs. ESS, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, EQR, AVB, DOC, AMH, and HST
Should you be buying Mid-America Apartment Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-America Apartment Communities include Essex Property Trust (ESS), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) and Essex Property Trust (NYSE:ESS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Essex Property Trust received 213 more outperform votes than Mid-America Apartment Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.95% of users gave Mid-America Apartment Communities an outperform vote while only 56.94% of users gave Essex Property Trust an outperform vote.
93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Essex Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Essex Property Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Essex Property Trust. Mid-America Apartment Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essex Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Essex Property Trust has a net margin of 31.18% compared to Mid-America Apartment Communities' net margin of 25.92%. Essex Property Trust's return on equity of 9.22% beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' return on equity.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Essex Property Trust has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mid-America Apartment Communities currently has a consensus target price of $144.18, suggesting a potential upside of 8.43%. Essex Property Trust has a consensus target price of $249.76, suggesting a potential downside of 1.86%. Given Mid-America Apartment Communities' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Mid-America Apartment Communities is more favorable than Essex Property Trust.
In the previous week, Essex Property Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Mid-America Apartment Communities. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Essex Property Trust and 18 mentions for Mid-America Apartment Communities. Essex Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' score of 0.30 indicating that Essex Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Essex Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $9.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays out 123.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Essex Property Trust pays out 119.8% 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
Essex Property Trust beats Mid-America Apartment Communities on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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