Alternative Income REIT (AIRE) Competitors

Alternative Income REIT (LON:AIRE) and abrdn Equity Income Trust (LON:AEI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in AIRE or AEI?

15.9% of Alternative Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of abrdn Equity Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.5% of Alternative Income REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of abrdn Equity Income Trust 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.

Is AIRE or AEI a better dividend stock?

Alternative Income REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. abrdn Equity Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Alternative Income REIT pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. abrdn Equity Income Trust pays out 54.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, AIRE or AEI?

Alternative Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than abrdn Equity Income Trust. abrdn Equity Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alternative Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alternative Income REIT	£5.92M	9.68	£2.24M	£0.06	1,121.57
abrdn Equity Income Trust	£20.67M	8.83	-£220.80K	£0.42	887.94

Does the media refer more to AIRE or AEI?

In the previous week, Alternative Income REIT had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Equity Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Alternative Income REIT and 0 mentions for abrdn Equity Income Trust. Alternative Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat abrdn Equity Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Alternative Income REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Alternative Income REIT	Positive
abrdn Equity Income Trust	Neutral

Is AIRE or AEI more profitable?

Alternative Income REIT has a net margin of 29.84% compared to abrdn Equity Income Trust's net margin of -6.55%. Alternative Income REIT's return on equity of 3.60% beat abrdn Equity Income Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alternative Income REIT	29.84%	3.60%	3.56%
abrdn Equity Income Trust	-6.55%	-0.14%	0.71%

Which has more volatility & risk, AIRE or AEI?

Alternative Income REIT has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Equity Income Trust has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Alternative Income REIT beats abrdn Equity Income Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.