BRT Apartments (BRT) Competitors

BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT) and Paramount Group (NYSE:PGRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate BRT or PGRE?

BRT Apartments presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.16%. Paramount Group has a consensus target price of $5.19, suggesting a potential downside of 9.47%. Given BRT Apartments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than Paramount Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BRT Apartments	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Paramount Group	2 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, BRT or PGRE?

BRT Apartments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Group. BRT Apartments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paramount Group, 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
BRT Apartments	$95.95M	3.02	$3.87M	-$0.48	-31.90
Paramount Group	$755.59M	1.66	-$259.74M	-$0.31	-18.48

Does the media prefer BRT or PGRE?

In the previous week, Paramount Group had 20 more articles in the media than BRT Apartments. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Paramount Group and 0 mentions for BRT Apartments. BRT Apartments' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Paramount Group's score of 0.46 indicating that BRT Apartments is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BRT Apartments	Positive
Paramount Group	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of BRT or PGRE?

29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Paramount Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.0% of BRT Apartments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Paramount Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor BRT or PGRE?

BRT Apartments received 65 more outperform votes than Paramount Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.51% of users gave BRT Apartments an outperform vote while only 47.72% of users gave Paramount Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BRT Apartments	Outperform Votes 285 60.51%	Underperform Votes 186 39.49%
Paramount Group	Outperform Votes 220 47.72%	Underperform Votes 241 52.28%

Which has more volatility & risk, BRT or PGRE?

BRT Apartments has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Group has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is BRT or PGRE more profitable?

BRT Apartments has a net margin of -9.94% compared to Paramount Group's net margin of -27.92%. BRT Apartments' return on equity of -4.33% beat Paramount Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BRT Apartments	-9.94%	-4.33%	-1.34%
Paramount Group	-27.92%	-5.26%	-2.69%

Is BRT or PGRE a better dividend stock?

BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Paramount Group pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. BRT Apartments pays out -208.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Group pays out -45.2% 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. BRT Apartments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

BRT Apartments beats Paramount Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.