COLD vs. CUBE, AIRC, KRC, VTR, MLP, AXR, ASPS, LEJU, XIN, and AGNCP
Should you be buying Americold Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Americold Realty Trust include CubeSmart (CUBE), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Ventas (VTR), Maui Land & Pineapple (MLP), AMREP (AXR), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), Leju (LEJU), Xinyuan Real Estate (XIN), and AGNC Investment (AGNCP).
CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE) and Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
CubeSmart has a net margin of 39.11% compared to CubeSmart's net margin of -12.58%. Americold Realty Trust's return on equity of 14.57% beat CubeSmart's return on equity.
97.6% of CubeSmart shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Americold Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of CubeSmart shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Americold Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CubeSmart has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Americold Realty Trust has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CubeSmart received 174 more outperform votes than Americold Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.78% of users gave CubeSmart an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Americold Realty Trust an outperform vote.
CubeSmart currently has a consensus price target of $46.33, indicating a potential upside of 11.97%. Americold Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $30.33, indicating a potential upside of 35.84%. Given CubeSmart's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Americold Realty Trust is more favorable than CubeSmart.
CubeSmart pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Americold Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. CubeSmart pays out 112.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Americold Realty Trust pays out -72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CubeSmart has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. CubeSmart is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
CubeSmart has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Americold Realty Trust. Americold Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CubeSmart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Americold Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than CubeSmart. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Americold Realty Trust and 11 mentions for CubeSmart. CubeSmart's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Americold Realty Trust's score of 1.01 indicating that Americold Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CubeSmart beats Americold Realty Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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