ELME vs. FRHC, STEP, EPRT, JHG, VIRT, MC, IRT, PECO, PIPR, and HASI
Should you be buying Elme Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elme Communities include Freedom (FRHC), StepStone Group (STEP), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Moelis & Company (MC), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), and Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) and Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Elme Communities had 2 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Elme Communities and 5 mentions for Freedom. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Elme Communities' score of 0.85 indicating that Freedom is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freedom has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elme Communities has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
1.3% of Freedom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Elme Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.6% of Freedom shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Elme Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Freedom has higher revenue and earnings than Elme Communities. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freedom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elme Communities has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.90%. Given Elme Communities' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Elme Communities is more favorable than Freedom.
Freedom received 8 more outperform votes than Elme Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote while only 9.09% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.
Freedom has a net margin of 19.32% compared to Elme Communities' net margin of -22.90%. Freedom's return on equity of 32.00% beat Elme Communities' return on equity.
Summary
Freedom beats Elme Communities on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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