AKR vs. ROIC, ALX, BFS, SKT, MAC, KRG, ADC, AHR, CXW, and RLJ
Should you be buying Acadia Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Realty Trust include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), CoreCivic (CXW), and RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 379.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Retail Opportunity Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Retail Opportunity Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Acadia Realty Trust. Retail Opportunity Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Retail Opportunity Investments' net margin of 5.72%. Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity of 2.53% beat Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments presently has a consensus price target of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 20.11%. Acadia Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.50%. Given Acadia Realty Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Acadia Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Retail Opportunity Investments. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments. Acadia Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Retail Opportunity Investments' score of 0.83 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 36 more outperform votes than Acadia Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Acadia Realty Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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