ESRT vs. ARI, ROIC, RC, GNL, CXW, VRE, LTC, JBGS, IVT, and UNIT
Should you be buying Empire State Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empire State Realty Trust include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Ready Capital (RC), Global Net Lease (GNL), CoreCivic (CXW), Veris Residential (VRE), LTC Properties (LTC), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), and Uniti Group (UNIT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Empire State Realty Trust. Empire State Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Empire State Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $8.33, indicating a potential downside of 9.52%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.78%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Empire State Realty Trust.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 80 more outperform votes than Empire State Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.96% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 16.87% compared to Empire State Realty Trust's net margin of 6.51%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 6.51% beat Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Empire State Realty Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust and 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Empire State Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.14 indicating that Empire State Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out 466.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats Empire State Realty Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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