ROIC vs. AKR, BFS, KRG, ADC, ESRT, RC, CXW, LTC, RLJ, and PEB
Should you be buying Retail Opportunity Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retail Opportunity Investments include Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Saul Centers (BFS), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Ready Capital (RC), CoreCivic (CXW), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Retail Opportunity Investments. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust and 9 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Acadia Realty Trust's score of 0.68 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Retail Opportunity Investments presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 19.34%. Acadia Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.28%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Acadia Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 36 more outperform votes than Acadia Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Retail Opportunity Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Acadia Realty Trust. Retail Opportunity Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 900.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Retail Opportunity Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust 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.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 11.21% compared to Acadia Realty Trust's net margin of 2.38%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 2.75% beat Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Acadia Realty Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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