INVH vs. ARE, ERIE, LPLA, SBAC, BSBR, HBAN, KB, IRM, STT, and CINF
Should you be buying Invitation Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Invitation Homes include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), LPL Financial (LPLA), SBA Communications (SBAC), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), KB Financial Group (KB), Iron Mountain (IRM), State Street (STT), and Cincinnati Financial (CINF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) and Invitation Homes (NYSE:INVH) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Invitation Homes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Invitation Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Invitation Homes pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 940.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Invitation Homes pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Invitation Homes has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 1 more articles in the media than Invitation Homes. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 6 mentions for Invitation Homes. Invitation Homes' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' score of 0.65 indicating that Alexandria Real Estate Equities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Invitation Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Invitation Homes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invitation Homes has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Invitation Homes has a net margin of 21.34% compared to Invitation Homes' net margin of 3.59%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 5.06% beat Invitation Homes' return on equity.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities presently has a consensus price target of $137.13, indicating a potential upside of 17.69%. Invitation Homes has a consensus price target of $38.19, indicating a potential upside of 14.30%. Given Invitation Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than Invitation Homes.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities received 89 more outperform votes than Invitation Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.60% of users gave Invitation Homes an outperform vote while only 64.87% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
Summary
Alexandria Real Estate Equities beats Invitation Homes on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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