EPRT vs. KRG, VNO, PECO, RITM, KRC, AIRC, IRT, HR, CUZ, and ADC
Should you be buying Essential Properties Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Essential Properties Realty Trust include Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Rithm Capital (RITM), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Cousins Properties (CUZ), and Agree Realty (ADC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) and Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Kite Realty Group Trust has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kite Realty Group Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Kite Realty Group Trust pays out 384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 92.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kite Realty Group Trust has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Essential Properties Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 51.34% compared to Essential Properties Realty Trust's net margin of 6.83%. Kite Realty Group Trust's return on equity of 6.56% beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kite Realty Group Trust. Essential Properties Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kite Realty Group Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kite Realty Group Trust received 157 more outperform votes than Essential Properties Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.54% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Kite Realty Group Trust an outperform vote.
Kite Realty Group Trust currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.52%. Essential Properties Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $28.56, indicating a potential upside of 4.75%. Given Essential Properties Realty Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kite Realty Group Trust is more favorable than Essential Properties Realty Trust.
90.8% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Essential Properties Realty Trust had 8 more articles in the media than Kite Realty Group Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust and 4 mentions for Kite Realty Group Trust. Essential Properties Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Kite Realty Group Trust's score of 1.26 indicating that Kite Realty Group Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Essential Properties Realty Trust beats Kite Realty Group Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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