BRT vs. BRDG, AAMI, CSR, SAFE, UNIT, SBR, DEA, USAR, NXRT, and TINV
Should you be buying BRT Apartments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BRT Apartments include Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Acadian Asset Management (AAMI), Centerspace (CSR), Safehold (SAFE), Uniti Group (UNIT), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), USA Rare Earth (USAR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), and Tiga Acquisition (TINV). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
BRT Apartments vs. Its Competitors
BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT) and Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. BRT Apartments pays out -208.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bridge Investment Group pays out -84.6% 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. Bridge Investment Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. BRT Apartments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bridge Investment Group has a net margin of 1.92% compared to BRT Apartments' net margin of -9.94%. Bridge Investment Group's return on equity of 9.91% beat BRT Apartments' return on equity.
29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 42.0% of BRT Apartments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BRT Apartments received 248 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.51% of users gave BRT Apartments an outperform vote while only 56.06% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote.
BRT Apartments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bridge Investment Group. BRT Apartments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridge Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BRT Apartments had 2 more articles in the media than Bridge Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BRT Apartments and 2 mentions for Bridge Investment Group. BRT Apartments' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Bridge Investment Group's score of 0.01 indicating that BRT Apartments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BRT Apartments presently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.33%. Bridge Investment Group has a consensus price target of $10.70, indicating a potential upside of 13.76%. Given BRT Apartments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than Bridge Investment Group.
BRT Apartments has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BRT Apartments beats Bridge Investment Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BRT) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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