UNIT vs. JBGS, SAFE, LTC, VRE, LADR, ELME, AAT, TWO, NTST, and RC
Should you be buying Uniti Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Uniti Group include JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Safehold (SAFE), LTC Properties (LTC), Veris Residential (VRE), Ladder Capital (LADR), Elme Communities (ELME), American Assets Trust (AAT), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), NETSTREIT (NTST), and Ready Capital (RC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
JBG SMITH Properties (NYSE:JBGS) and Uniti Group (NASDAQ:UNIT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
JBG SMITH Properties presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.42%. Uniti Group has a consensus target price of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 29.50%. Given JBG SMITH Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Uniti Group is more favorable than JBG SMITH Properties.
JBG SMITH Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Uniti Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. JBG SMITH Properties pays out -50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Uniti Group pays out -333.3% 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. Uniti Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
98.5% of JBG SMITH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Uniti Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of JBG SMITH Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Uniti Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Uniti Group has a net margin of -3.83% compared to Uniti Group's net margin of -22.37%. JBG SMITH Properties' return on equity of 0.00% beat Uniti Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Uniti Group had 2 more articles in the media than JBG SMITH Properties. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Uniti Group and 12 mentions for JBG SMITH Properties. Uniti Group's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat JBG SMITH Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that JBG SMITH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JBG SMITH Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Uniti Group. Uniti Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JBG SMITH Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Uniti Group received 162 more outperform votes than JBG SMITH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.87% of users gave Uniti Group an outperform vote while only 61.64% of users gave JBG SMITH Properties an outperform vote.
JBG SMITH Properties has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Uniti Group has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Uniti Group beats JBG SMITH Properties on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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