ITIC vs. BRT, MIN, WHF, ACNB, EBTC, HIVE, SLQT, BWB, RFI, and SAR
Should you be buying Investors Title stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investors Title include BRT Apartments (BRT), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), ACNB (ACNB), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), SelectQuote (SLQT), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI), and Saratoga Investment (SAR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) and BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Investors Title pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Investors Title pays out 16.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BRT Apartments pays out 555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Investors Title has a net margin of 9.65% compared to BRT Apartments' net margin of 4.14%. Investors Title's return on equity of 8.73% beat BRT Apartments' return on equity.
Investors Title has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRT Apartments has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BRT Apartments has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 42.86%. Given BRT Apartments' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than Investors Title.
BRT Apartments received 141 more outperform votes than Investors Title when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.52% of users gave BRT Apartments an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave Investors Title an outperform vote.
41.4% of Investors Title shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are held by institutional investors. 26.1% of Investors Title shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.3% of BRT Apartments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Investors Title has higher revenue and earnings than BRT Apartments. Investors Title is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BRT Apartments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BRT Apartments had 10 more articles in the media than Investors Title. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for BRT Apartments and 3 mentions for Investors Title. BRT Apartments' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Investors Title's score of 0.29 indicating that BRT Apartments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BRT Apartments beats Investors Title on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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