ELME vs. AAT, TWO, LADR, SAFE, NTST, UNIT, JBGS, LTC, VRE, and DEA
Should you be buying Elme Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elme Communities include American Assets Trust (AAT), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Ladder Capital (LADR), Safehold (SAFE), NETSTREIT (NTST), Uniti Group (UNIT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), LTC Properties (LTC), Veris Residential (VRE), and Easterly Government Properties (DEA). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME) and American Assets Trust (NYSE:AAT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Elme Communities has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Assets Trust has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Assets Trust has a net margin of 11.42% compared to Elme Communities' net margin of -23.25%. American Assets Trust's return on equity of 4.31% beat Elme Communities' return on equity.
In the previous week, American Assets Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Elme Communities. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for American Assets Trust and 2 mentions for Elme Communities. American Assets Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Elme Communities' score of 0.00 indicating that American Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.9% of Elme Communities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of American Assets Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Elme Communities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of American Assets Trust 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.
American Assets Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Elme Communities. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elme Communities presently has a consensus price target of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.85%. American Assets Trust has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.55%. Given Elme Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Elme Communities is more favorable than American Assets Trust.
Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. American Assets Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Elme Communities pays out -118.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Assets Trust pays out 159.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
American Assets Trust received 370 more outperform votes than Elme Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave American Assets Trust an outperform vote while only 11.11% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.
Summary
American Assets Trust beats Elme Communities on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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