EXR vs. AMT, WELL, PSA, WY, VTR, CUBE, OHI, RHP, HR, and RYN
Should you be buying Extra Space Storage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Extra Space Storage include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Ventas (VTR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), and Rayonier (RYN). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
American Tower (NYSE:AMT) and Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) 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.
In the previous week, American Tower had 1 more articles in the media than Extra Space Storage. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for American Tower and 11 mentions for Extra Space Storage. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Extra Space Storage's score of 0.90 indicating that Extra Space Storage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Extra Space Storage. Extra Space Storage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Extra Space Storage has a net margin of 29.10% compared to Extra Space Storage's net margin of 18.42%. Extra Space Storage's return on equity of 18.45% beat American Tower's return on equity.
92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Extra Space Storage shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Extra Space Storage 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.
American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Extra Space Storage pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. American Tower pays out 146.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Extra Space Storage pays out 144.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Extra Space Storage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American Tower has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Extra Space Storage has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Tower received 489 more outperform votes than Extra Space Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.02% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 59.98% of users gave Extra Space Storage an outperform vote.
American Tower presently has a consensus price target of $220.91, indicating a potential upside of 10.74%. Extra Space Storage has a consensus price target of $149.75, indicating a potential upside of 0.86%. Given Extra Space Storage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Tower is more favorable than Extra Space Storage.
Summary
American Tower beats Extra Space Storage on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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