AIV vs. UMH, AVB, EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, and KRG
Should you be buying Apartment Investment and Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apartment Investment and Management include UMH Properties (UMH), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), and Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
UMH Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Apartment Investment and Management pays an annual dividend of $1.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. UMH Properties pays out -573.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apartment Investment and Management pays out -85.6% 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.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 3.42% compared to UMH Properties' net margin of -86.84%. Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity of 1.92% beat UMH Properties' return on equity.
Apartment Investment and Management received 139 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.49% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Investment and Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, UMH Properties and UMH Properties both had 3 articles in the media. UMH Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Apartment Investment and Management's score of -0.25 indicating that Apartment Investment and Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.4% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by 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.
UMH Properties has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UMH Properties presently has a consensus target price of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Apartment Investment and Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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