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Should you be buying Easterly Government Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Easterly Government Properties include PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), NETSTREIT (NTST), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), Elme Communities (ELME), MFA Financial (MFA), Alexander's (ALX), and UMH Properties (UMH). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Easterly Government Properties (NYSE:DEA) and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
86.5% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Easterly Government Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by 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.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 46.54% compared to Easterly Government Properties' net margin of 6.55%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity of 14.15% beat Easterly Government Properties' return on equity.
Easterly Government Properties has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust received 111 more outperform votes than Easterly Government Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.45% of users gave PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 59.16% of users gave Easterly Government Properties an outperform vote.
Easterly Government Properties currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.19%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $14.58, indicating a potential upside of 3.14%. Given Easterly Government Properties' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Easterly Government Properties is more favorable than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust.
Easterly Government Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Easterly Government Properties pays out 557.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 99.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Easterly Government Properties. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust 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.
In the previous week, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Easterly Government Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust and 4 mentions for Easterly Government Properties. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Easterly Government Properties' score of 0.01 indicating that PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust beats Easterly Government Properties on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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