ELME vs. RITM, EPRT, KRG, VNO, RYN, PECO, KRC, HASI, IRT, and CTRE
Should you be buying Elme Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elme Communities include Rithm Capital (RITM), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Rayonier (RYN), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), and CareTrust REIT (CTRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Rithm Capital (NYSE:RITM) and Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Rithm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Rithm Capital pays out 66.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elme Communities pays out -118.0% 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. Elme Communities has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Rithm Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Elme Communities. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Rithm Capital and 1 mentions for Elme Communities. Rithm Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Elme Communities' score of 1.47 indicating that Elme Communities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rithm Capital received 567 more outperform votes than Elme Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.67% of users gave Rithm Capital an outperform vote while only 10.00% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.
Rithm Capital has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elme Communities has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rithm Capital presently has a consensus target price of $12.32, indicating a potential upside of 11.78%. Elme Communities has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.85%. Given Elme Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Rithm Capital is more favorable than Elme Communities.
44.9% of Rithm Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Elme Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Rithm Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Elme Communities 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.
Rithm Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Elme Communities. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rithm Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rithm Capital has a net margin of 19.77% compared to Rithm Capital's net margin of -22.88%. Elme Communities' return on equity of 19.33% beat Rithm Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Rithm Capital beats Elme Communities on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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