AIRC vs. COLD, KRC, CUBE, VTR, MLP, EARN, AXR, ASPS, LEJU, and XIN
Should you be buying Apartment Income REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Income REIT include Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Kilroy Realty (KRC), CubeSmart (CUBE), Ventas (VTR), Maui Land & Pineapple (MLP), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), AMREP (AXR), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), Leju (LEJU), and Xinyuan Real Estate (XIN).
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Americold Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Americold Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apartment Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Americold Realty Trust. Americold Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Americold Realty Trust has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 77.37% compared to Americold Realty Trust's net margin of -12.58%. Apartment Income REIT's return on equity of 26.29% beat Americold Realty Trust's return on equity.
Apartment Income REIT currently has a consensus target price of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 4.84%. Americold Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 35.96%. Given Americold Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Americold Realty Trust is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Americold Realty Trust received 237 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.75% of users gave Americold Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Americold Realty Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Americold Realty Trust and 6 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Americold Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Apartment Income REIT's score of 1.13 indicating that Americold Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Americold Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Americold Realty Trust pays out -72.7% 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.
Summary
Apartment Income REIT and Americold Realty Trust tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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