ROIC vs. AKR, ALX, BFS, ABR, SKT, MAC, KRG, ADC, RLJ, and ESRT
Should you be buying Retail Opportunity Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retail Opportunity Investments include Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) and Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Retail Opportunity Investments has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acadia Realty Trust. Retail Opportunity Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 900.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Retail Opportunity Investments has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Retail Opportunity Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Acadia Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 3 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Acadia Realty Trust's score of 0.87 indicating that Acadia Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Acadia Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.08%. Retail Opportunity Investments has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 19.20%. Given Acadia Realty Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Acadia Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 11.21% compared to Retail Opportunity Investments' net margin of 2.38%. Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity of 2.75% beat Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 36 more outperform votes than Acadia Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.16% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Acadia Realty Trust on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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