AAT vs. SPHR, BDN, VET, WSR, OLP, LXP, ABR, CUZ, PECO, and VNO
Should you be buying American Assets Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Assets Trust include Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Vermilion Energy (VET), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), and Vornado Realty Trust (VNO).
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) and American Assets Trust (NYSE:AAT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Sphere Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $35.60, indicating a potential downside of 2.68%. American Assets Trust has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.33%. Given Sphere Entertainment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Assets Trust is more favorable than Sphere Entertainment.
American Assets Trust received 367 more outperform votes than Sphere Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave American Assets Trust an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Sphere Entertainment an outperform vote.
92.0% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of American Assets Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.5% of Sphere Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of American Assets Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sphere Entertainment has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Assets Trust has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sphere Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than American Assets Trust. Sphere Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sphere Entertainment and Sphere Entertainment both had 1 articles in the media. Sphere Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat American Assets Trust's score of 0.52 indicating that American Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sphere Entertainment has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Sphere Entertainment's net margin of 12.05%. American Assets Trust's return on equity of 8.11% beat Sphere Entertainment's return on equity.
Summary
Sphere Entertainment beats American Assets Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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