MAA vs. SUI, ESS, UDR, ELS, CPT, EQR, AVB, DOC, AMH, and WPC
Should you be buying Mid-America Apartment Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-America Apartment Communities include Sun Communities (SUI), Essex Property Trust (ESS), 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 W. P. Carey (WPC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) and Sun Communities (NYSE:SUI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Mid-America Apartment Communities currently has a consensus target price of $144.18, suggesting a potential upside of 8.24%. Sun Communities has a consensus target price of $136.27, suggesting a potential upside of 16.32%. Given Sun Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sun Communities is more favorable than Mid-America Apartment Communities.
93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of Sun Communities shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Sun Communities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sun Communities has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Sun Communities pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. 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. 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. Mid-America Apartment Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has a net margin of 25.92% compared to Sun Communities' net margin of 4.46%. Mid-America Apartment Communities' return on equity of 8.90% beat Sun Communities' return on equity.
In the previous week, Mid-America Apartment Communities had 15 more articles in the media than Sun Communities. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Mid-America Apartment Communities and 5 mentions for Sun Communities. Sun Communities' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' score of 0.78 indicating that Sun Communities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mid-America Apartment Communities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sun Communities. Mid-America Apartment Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mid-America Apartment Communities received 107 more outperform votes than Sun Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.37% of users gave Sun Communities an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave Mid-America Apartment Communities an outperform vote.
Summary
Mid-America Apartment Communities and Sun Communities tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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