AIV vs. UMH, ESRT, CXW, PMT, NTST, RC, PGRE, NXRT, FBRT, and ALX
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), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), CoreCivic (CXW), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), NETSTREIT (NTST), Ready Capital (RC), Paramount Group (PGRE), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and Alexander's (ALX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Investment and Management vs.
UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Apartment Investment and Management received 144 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.12% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 61.43% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
In the previous week, UMH Properties had 3 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for UMH Properties and 5 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Apartment Investment and Management's score of 0.51 indicating that UMH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UMH Properties currently has a consensus price target of $21.75, indicating a potential upside of 54.15%. Given UMH Properties' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
71.3% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of UMH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UMH Properties has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Investment and Management has a net margin of 39.78% compared to UMH Properties' net margin of -2.51%. UMH Properties' return on equity of -1.59% beat Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity.
Apartment Investment and Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UMH Properties. 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.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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