Apartment Income REIT (AIRC) Competitors

SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, SBAC or AIRC?

Apartment Income REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SBA Communications. Apartment Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SBA Communications, 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
SBA Communications	$2.71B	8.51	$501.81M	$5.10	42.10
Apartment Income REIT	$820.04M	6.91	$635.10M	$4.26	9.17

Is SBAC or AIRC a better dividend stock?

SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. SBA Communications pays out 76.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apartment Income REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts prefer SBAC or AIRC?

SBA Communications presently has a consensus target price of $248.31, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. Apartment Income REIT has a consensus target price of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 6.38%. Given Apartment Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SBA Communications	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.92
Apartment Income REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.11

Which has more volatility and risk, SBAC or AIRC?

SBA Communications has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SBAC or AIRC?

SBA Communications received 787 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SBA Communications	Outperform Votes 810 67.28%	Underperform Votes 394 32.72%
Apartment Income REIT	Outperform Votes 23 32.39%	Underperform Votes 48 67.61%

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in SBAC or AIRC?

97.4% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is SBAC or AIRC more profitable?

Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Apartment Income REIT's net margin of 20.61%. SBA Communications' return on equity of 25.86% beat Apartment Income REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SBA Communications	20.61%	-10.75%	5.40%
Apartment Income REIT	79.54%	25.86%	10.17%

Does the media prefer SBAC or AIRC?

In the previous week, SBA Communications had 9 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for SBA Communications and 1 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Apartment Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat SBA Communications' score of 0.00 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SBA Communications	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Apartment Income REIT	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

SBA Communications beats Apartment Income REIT on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.