NXRT vs. IRT, CTRE, APLE, CUZ, PCH, SBRA, SLG, HHH, MAC, and GRP.U
Should you be buying NexPoint Residential Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Residential Trust include Independence Realty Trust (IRT), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), Cousins Properties (CUZ), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), SL Green Realty (SLG), Howard Hughes (HHH), Macerich (MAC), and Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Independence Realty Trust (NYSE:IRT) and NexPoint Residential Trust (NYSE:NXRT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
88.3% of Independence Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of NexPoint Residential Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Independence Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of NexPoint Residential 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.
Independence Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. NexPoint Residential Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Independence Realty Trust pays out -2,132.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NexPoint Residential Trust pays out 65.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Independence Realty Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and NexPoint Residential Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Independence Realty Trust and Independence Realty Trust both had 4 articles in the media. NexPoint Residential Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Independence Realty Trust's score of 1.65 indicating that Independence Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NexPoint Residential Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Independence Realty Trust. Independence Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NexPoint Residential Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Independence Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.85%. NexPoint Residential Trust has a consensus price target of $37.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.19%. Given NexPoint Residential Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Independence Realty Trust is more favorable than NexPoint Residential Trust.
NexPoint Residential Trust has a net margin of 27.02% compared to NexPoint Residential Trust's net margin of -1.26%. Independence Realty Trust's return on equity of 14.82% beat NexPoint Residential Trust's return on equity.
Independence Realty Trust has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexPoint Residential Trust has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Independence Realty Trust received 159 more outperform votes than NexPoint Residential Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.85% of users gave Independence Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave NexPoint Residential Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Independence Realty Trust beats NexPoint Residential Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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