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Investors Real Estate Trust (IRET) Competitors

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IRET vs. WSR, GOOD, OLP, GYRO, VNO, CUZ, LXP, AAT, FSP, and EQC

Should you be buying Investors Real Estate Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investors Real Estate Trust include Whitestone REIT (WSR), Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), and Equity Commonwealth (EQC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Investors Real Estate Trust vs. Its Competitors

Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) and Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE:IRET) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Investors Real Estate Trust has a net margin of 34.57% compared to Whitestone REIT's net margin of 21.70%. Investors Real Estate Trust's return on equity of 10.77% beat Whitestone REIT's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Whitestone REIT21.70% 7.76% 2.98%
Investors Real Estate Trust 34.57%10.77%4.36%

Whitestone REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Investors Real Estate Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.4%. Whitestone REIT pays out 83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Investors Real Estate Trust pays out 75.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitestone REIT has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Investors Real Estate Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Whitestone REIT has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investors Real Estate Trust has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Whitestone REIT had 4 more articles in the media than Investors Real Estate Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Whitestone REIT and 0 mentions for Investors Real Estate Trust. Whitestone REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Investors Real Estate Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Whitestone REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Whitestone REIT Neutral
Investors Real Estate Trust Neutral

69.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Whitestone REIT presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.16%. Given Whitestone REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Whitestone REIT is more favorable than Investors Real Estate Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Whitestone REIT
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Investors Real Estate Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Investors Real Estate Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Whitestone REIT. Investors Real Estate Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Whitestone REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Whitestone REIT$154.28M4.31$36.89M$0.6520.04
Investors Real Estate Trust$185.76M1.36$79.21M$3.725.22

Summary

Investors Real Estate Trust beats Whitestone REIT on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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IRET vs. The Competition

MetricInvestors Real Estate TrustReal Estate Investment Trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$251.97M$813.42M$12.78B$21.58B
Dividend Yield3.98%4.93%5.40%3.48%
P/E Ratio4.628.34245.8629.75
Price / Sales1.3636.6531.0886.27
Price / Cash5.2913.3622.3625.00
Price / Book0.391.732.314.58
Net Income$79.21M$10.26M$1.01B$999.94M

Investors Real Estate Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IRET
Investors Real Estate Trust
N/A$19.42
-0.1%
N/A-14.3%$251.97M$185.76M4.62361
WSR
Whitestone REIT
3.6493 of 5 stars
$12.81
-1.2%
$15.00
+17.1%
-1.5%$653.29M$156.63M19.7090News Coverage
GOOD
Gladstone Commercial
3.8214 of 5 stars
$13.00
-0.6%
$15.00
+15.4%
-17.0%$605.27M$153.64M36.1170News Coverage
OLP
One Liberty Properties
3.4808 of 5 stars
$22.98
-1.0%
N/A-17.0%$496.35M$94.78M17.819News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
GYRO
Gyrodyne
1.9274 of 5 stars
$10.00
-1.9%
N/A+26.3%$21.99M$4.86M0.006Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
VNO
Vornado Realty Trust
4.6064 of 5 stars
$39.94
-1.8%
$37.90
-5.1%
+19.6%$7.67B$1.80B9.892,996News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CUZ
Cousins Properties
4.2191 of 5 stars
$28.68
-1.3%
$32.40
+13.0%
+1.2%$4.82B$856.76M77.51290News Coverage
Gap Down
LXP
LXP Industrial Trust
4.4114 of 5 stars
$9.05
-0.7%
$10.33
+14.2%
-7.4%$2.68B$363.00M32.3070Positive News
Short Interest ↑
AAT
American Assets Trust
3.9239 of 5 stars
$20.17
-2.8%
$20.50
+1.6%
-21.1%$1.23B$452.81M17.39220Positive News
Short Interest ↓
FSP
Franklin Street Properties
2.2221 of 5 stars
$1.65
-2.4%
N/A-2.0%$171.09M$111.88M-3.3030Positive News
Short Interest ↓
EQC
Equity Commonwealth
N/A$1.58
flat
N/AN/A$169.73M$58.43M4.0520News Coverage
Positive News

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