SAFE vs. AAT, TWO, VRE, ELME, LADR, ARI, JBGS, PMT, ALEX, and LTC
Should you be buying Safehold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safehold include American Assets Trust (AAT), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Veris Residential (VRE), Elme Communities (ELME), Ladder Capital (LADR), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), and LTC Properties (LTC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and American Assets Trust (NYSE:AAT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
American Assets Trust has a net margin of 12.05% compared to Safehold's net margin of -15.59%. American Assets Trust's return on equity of 4.60% beat Safehold's return on equity.
Safehold currently has a consensus target price of $27.78, indicating a potential upside of 45.13%. American Assets Trust has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.09%. Given Safehold's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Safehold is more favorable than American Assets Trust.
American Assets Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Safehold. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Assets Trust received 159 more outperform votes than Safehold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave American Assets Trust an outperform vote while only 55.06% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.
70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of American Assets Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of American Assets Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Safehold has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Assets Trust has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, American Assets Trust had 11 more articles in the media than Safehold. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for American Assets Trust and 5 mentions for Safehold. American Assets Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Safehold's score of 0.35 indicating that American Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. American Assets Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Safehold pays out -87.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Assets Trust pays out 150.6% 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
American Assets Trust beats Safehold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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