ABR vs. ROIC, AAT, TWO, ALEX, COLD, EPRT, STEP, FRHC, PIPR, and IRT
Should you be buying Arbor Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arbor Realty Trust include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), American Assets Trust (AAT), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), StepStone Group (STEP), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), and Independence Realty Trust (IRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Retail Opportunity Investments currently has a consensus price target of $14.38, suggesting a potential upside of 12.30%. Arbor Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $14.58, suggesting a potential upside of 7.07%. Given Arbor Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Arbor Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 40 more outperform votes than Arbor Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.51% of users gave Arbor Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arbor Realty Trust has a net margin of 26.05% compared to Arbor Realty Trust's net margin of 10.40%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 17.04% beat Arbor Realty Trust's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Arbor Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.6%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arbor Realty Trust pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arbor Realty Trust has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Arbor Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 8 more articles in the media than Arbor Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 13 mentions for Arbor Realty Trust. Arbor Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Retail Opportunity Investments' score of 0.20 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arbor Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Arbor Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Arbor Realty Trust beats Retail Opportunity Investments on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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