DEA vs. AIV, ALEX, PMT, NTST, TWO, JBGS, AAT, MFA, UMH, and ALX
Should you be buying Easterly Government Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Easterly Government Properties include Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), NETSTREIT (NTST), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), American Assets Trust (AAT), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), and Alexander's (ALX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) and Easterly Government Properties (NYSE:DEA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Easterly Government Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Easterly Government Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Easterly Government Properties has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.60%. Given Apartment Investment and Management's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Easterly Government Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
Easterly Government Properties has a net margin of 6.77% compared to Easterly Government Properties' net margin of -86.84%. Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity of 1.38% beat Easterly Government Properties' return on equity.
Apartment Investment and Management received 90 more outperform votes than Easterly Government Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave Easterly Government Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Apartment Investment and Management and Apartment Investment and Management both had 4 articles in the media. Easterly Government Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Apartment Investment and Management's score of 1.65 indicating that Apartment Investment and Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Easterly Government Properties has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Easterly Government Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Easterly Government Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Easterly Government Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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