IRT vs. SUI, DOC, AMH, KIM, UDR, HST, WPC, GLPI, LAMR, and ELS
Should you be buying Independence Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Independence Realty Trust include Sun Communities (SUI), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Kimco Realty (KIM), UDR (UDR), Host Hotels & Resorts (HST), W. P. Carey (WPC), Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), and Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Sun Communities (NYSE:SUI) and Independence Realty Trust (NYSE:IRT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Sun Communities received 35 more outperform votes than Independence Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.37% of users gave Sun Communities an outperform vote while only 60.85% of users gave Independence Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Sun Communities currently has a consensus target price of $136.27, suggesting a potential upside of 17.97%. Independence Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.90%. Given Independence Realty Trust's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sun Communities is more favorable than Independence Realty Trust.
99.6% of Sun Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Independence Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Sun Communities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Independence Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Independence Realty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sun Communities. Independence Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sun Communities has a net margin of 4.46% compared to Sun Communities' net margin of -1.26%. Independence Realty Trust's return on equity of 1.87% beat Sun Communities' return on equity.
In the previous week, Sun Communities had 6 more articles in the media than Independence Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sun Communities and 3 mentions for Independence Realty Trust. Independence Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Sun Communities' score of 1.22 indicating that Sun Communities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Communities pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Independence Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Sun Communities pays out 324.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Independence Realty Trust pays out -2,132.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sun Communities has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Independence Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Independence Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sun Communities has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Independence Realty Trust has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sun Communities beats Independence Realty Trust on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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