ESRT vs. STWD, AIRC, RITM, KRG, EPRT, VNO, RYN, IRT, PECO, and KRC
Should you be buying Empire State Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empire State Realty Trust include Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Rithm Capital (RITM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Rayonier (RYN), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), and Kilroy Realty (KRC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) and Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Starwood Property Trust has a net margin of 21.20% compared to Starwood Property Trust's net margin of 6.51%. Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity of 9.99% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Starwood Property Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by company 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.
Starwood Property Trust received 193 more outperform votes than Empire State Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.79% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Starwood Property Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Empire State Realty Trust. Starwood Property Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empire State Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Starwood Property Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Empire State Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Starwood Property Trust and 2 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Empire State Realty Trust's score of 1.57 indicating that Empire State Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starwood Property Trust presently has a consensus target price of $21.88, indicating a potential upside of 15.50%. Empire State Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $8.33, indicating a potential downside of 9.12%. Given Empire State Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than Empire State Realty Trust.
Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Starwood Property Trust pays out 138.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats Empire State Realty Trust on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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