VRE vs. ARI, SAFE, LADR, LTC, RC, ELME, JBGS, TWO, AAT, and ESRT
Should you be buying Veris Residential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veris Residential include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Safehold (SAFE), Ladder Capital (LADR), LTC Properties (LTC), Ready Capital (RC), Elme Communities (ELME), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Veris Residential shares are owned 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 beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Veris Residential had 1 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Veris Residential and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Veris Residential's score of 0.51 indicating that Veris Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a net margin of -28.20% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -32.51%. Veris Residential's return on equity of 5.88% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Veris Residential. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veris Residential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 2.62%. Veris Residential has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of ∞. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Veris Residential is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 316 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veris Residential pays out -21.0% 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. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats Veris Residential on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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