AMT vs. WELL, PSA, EXR, VTR, WY, OHI, CUBE, RHP, HR, and EPR
Should you be buying American Tower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Tower include Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Ventas (VTR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), CubeSmart (CUBE), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), and EPR Properties (EPR). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
American Tower vs.
Welltower (NYSE:WELL) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
94.8% of Welltower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Welltower shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Welltower. American Tower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Welltower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Welltower currently has a consensus target price of $163.25, indicating a potential upside of 8.90%. American Tower has a consensus target price of $240.25, indicating a potential upside of 11.96%. Given American Tower's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Tower is more favorable than Welltower.
Welltower has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Welltower pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Welltower pays out 154.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Tower pays out 174.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Welltower has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and American Tower has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, American Tower had 9 more articles in the media than Welltower. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for American Tower and 14 mentions for Welltower. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Welltower's score of 0.92 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Tower received 281 more outperform votes than Welltower when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.39% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave Welltower an outperform vote.
Welltower has a net margin of 11.91% compared to American Tower's net margin of 10.05%. American Tower's return on equity of 22.01% beat Welltower's return on equity.
Summary
American Tower beats Welltower on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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