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Easterly Government Properties (DEA) Competitors

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$20.88 -0.91 (-4.16%)
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DEA vs. HHH, PJT, APAM, FHI, BXMT, RGTI, HASI, CIXXF, BNL, and CDP

Should you be buying Easterly Government Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Easterly Government Properties include Howard Hughes (HHH), PJT Partners (PJT), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Federated Hermes (FHI), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Rigetti Computing (RGTI), HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), CI Financial (CIXXF), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), and COPT Defense Properties (CDP). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.

Easterly Government Properties vs.

Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHH) and Easterly Government Properties (NYSE:DEA) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.

Easterly Government Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Easterly Government Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Howard Hughes$1.79B1.88-$550.95M$5.2112.85
Easterly Government Properties$307.93M3.05$18.80M$0.4249.75

Howard Hughes currently has a consensus target price of $80.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.51%. Easterly Government Properties has a consensus target price of $29.06, indicating a potential upside of 39.09%. Given Easterly Government Properties' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Easterly Government Properties is more favorable than Howard Hughes.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Howard Hughes
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Easterly Government Properties
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Howard Hughes had 7 more articles in the media than Easterly Government Properties. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Howard Hughes and 0 mentions for Easterly Government Properties. Howard Hughes' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Easterly Government Properties' score of 1.00 indicating that Howard Hughes is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Howard Hughes Very Positive
Easterly Government Properties Positive

Easterly Government Properties received 296 more outperform votes than Howard Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.58% of users gave Easterly Government Properties an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Howard HughesOutperform Votes
4
50.00%
Underperform Votes
4
50.00%
Easterly Government PropertiesOutperform Votes
300
57.58%
Underperform Votes
221
42.42%

Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Easterly Government Properties has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Howard Hughes has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Easterly Government Properties' net margin of 6.25%. Howard Hughes' return on equity of 3.38% beat Easterly Government Properties' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Howard Hughes6.57% 3.38% 1.03%
Easterly Government Properties 6.25%1.34%0.62%

93.8% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Howard Hughes beats Easterly Government Properties on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DEA vs. The Competition

MetricEasterly Government PropertiesReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$937.39M$6.92B$11.54B$19.48B
Dividend Yield3.40%6.75%5.46%3.84%
P/E Ratio115.9760.9122.5734.49
Price / Sales3.058.4127.3534.97
Price / Cash9.8717.3217.6217.51
Price / Book1.411.662.804.71
Net Income$18.80M$177.71M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.79%-0.59%-0.20%-0.88%
1 Month Performance4.34%4.26%7.92%10.32%
1 Year Performance-30.90%0.93%538.05%3.69%

Easterly Government Properties Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DEA
Easterly Government Properties
2.9227 of 5 stars
$20.88
-4.2%
$29.06
+39.2%
-27.7%$937.53M$307.93M115.9950Positive News
HHH
Howard Hughes
2.3106 of 5 stars
$73.78
+3.1%
$80.67
+9.3%
+2.9%$3.72B$1.79B48.86608Positive News
High Trading Volume
PJT
PJT Partners
2.0634 of 5 stars
$149.24
+3.5%
$154.50
+3.5%
+46.6%$3.48B$1.49B30.46910Positive News
APAM
Artisan Partners Asset Management
3.7553 of 5 stars
$42.69
+4.6%
$37.90
-11.2%
-7.0%$3.43B$1.12B11.73500Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
FHI
Federated Hermes
3.9584 of 5 stars
$42.93
+0.3%
$42.33
-1.4%
+31.3%$3.40B$1.66B13.461,960Positive News
Analyst Revision
BXMT
Blackstone Mortgage Trust
2.9977 of 5 stars
$19.64
+3.6%
$20.25
+3.1%
+7.2%$3.37B$477.73M-16.78N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
RGTI
Rigetti Computing
1.9893 of 5 stars
$11.55
+9.2%
$14.50
+25.5%
+954.9%$3.30B$10.79M-30.39160
HASI
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital
4.7194 of 5 stars
$26.57
-1.5%
$38.92
+46.5%
-11.9%$3.29B$306.87M16.82110Positive News
CIXXF
CI Financial
N/A$22.53
-0.6%
N/A+119.1%$3.25B$2.03B-68.272,420
BNL
Broadstone Net Lease
3.1999 of 5 stars
$16.29
-0.2%
$18.83
+15.6%
+1.9%$3.08B$435.12M18.7370Positive News
CDP
COPT Defense Properties
3.2024 of 5 stars
$27.01
+0.9%
$33.43
+23.8%
+10.8%$3.05B$747.86M21.96400News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade

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