AVB vs. EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, AIV, UMH, and PLD
Should you be buying AvalonBay Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AvalonBay Communities include Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), UMH Properties (UMH), and Prologis (PLD). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) and AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Equity Residential has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Equity Residential presently has a consensus price target of $68.22, indicating a potential upside of 5.54%. AvalonBay Communities has a consensus price target of $203.39, indicating a potential upside of 5.79%. Given Equity Residential's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AvalonBay Communities is more favorable than Equity Residential.
92.7% of Equity Residential shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Equity Residential shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AvalonBay Communities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AvalonBay Communities had 3 more articles in the media than Equity Residential. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for AvalonBay Communities and 9 mentions for Equity Residential. AvalonBay Communities' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Equity Residential's score of 1.09 indicating that Equity Residential is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 34.05% compared to AvalonBay Communities' net margin of 31.70%. AvalonBay Communities' return on equity of 8.18% beat Equity Residential's return on equity.
Equity Residential pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Equity Residential pays out 112.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AvalonBay Communities pays out 101.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equity Residential has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and AvalonBay Communities has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Equity Residential is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AvalonBay Communities received 174 more outperform votes than Equity Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave Equity Residential an outperform vote.
AvalonBay Communities has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equity Residential. Equity Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AvalonBay Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AvalonBay Communities beats Equity Residential on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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