AIRC vs. WY, SBAC, VTR, ARE, ESS, MAA, SUI, DOC, UDR, and AMH
Should you be buying Apartment Income REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Income REIT include Weyerhaeuser (WY), SBA Communications (SBAC), Ventas (VTR), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), UDR (UDR), and American Homes 4 Rent (AMH). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Weyerhaeuser (NYSE:WY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Weyerhaeuser received 531 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave Weyerhaeuser an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weyerhaeuser has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Weyerhaeuser's net margin of 10.57%. Apartment Income REIT's return on equity of 25.86% beat Weyerhaeuser's return on equity.
Apartment Income REIT currently has a consensus target price of $36.59, indicating a potential downside of 5.53%. Weyerhaeuser has a consensus target price of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.29%. Given Weyerhaeuser's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Weyerhaeuser is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Weyerhaeuser has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Income REIT. Apartment Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weyerhaeuser, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Apartment Income REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Weyerhaeuser. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Apartment Income REIT and 5 mentions for Weyerhaeuser. Apartment Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Weyerhaeuser's score of 1.72 indicating that Apartment Income REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Weyerhaeuser pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Weyerhaeuser pays out 72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Apartment Income REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Apartment Income REIT beats Weyerhaeuser on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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