AIV vs. UMH, ALEX, PMT, DEA, MFA, ALX, NTST, SVC, FBRT, and TWO
Should you be buying Apartment Investment and Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Investment and Management include UMH Properties (UMH), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), MFA Financial (MFA), Alexander's (ALX), NETSTREIT (NTST), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 3.55% compared to UMH Properties' net margin of -88.87%. Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity of 2.05% beat UMH Properties' return on equity.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Investment and Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.4% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, UMH Properties had 2 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for UMH Properties and 4 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat UMH Properties' score of 0.77 indicating that UMH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apartment Investment and Management received 141 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.19% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
UMH Properties currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.50%. Given Apartment Investment and Management's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
UMH Properties has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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