IRET vs. WSR, GOOD, OLP, GYRO, VNO, CUZ, LXP, AAT, PLYM, and NXRT
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), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), and NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) and Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE:IRET) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
69.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Whitestone REIT currently has a consensus price target of $13.63, indicating a potential downside of 2.26%. Given Investors Real Estate Trust's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Whitestone REIT is more favorable than Investors Real Estate Trust.
Whitestone REIT received 85 more outperform votes than Investors Real Estate Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.91% of users gave Whitestone REIT an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Investors Real Estate Trust an outperform vote.
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.
Whitestone REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Investors Real Estate Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Whitestone REIT pays out 104.2% 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. Investors Real Estate Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Investors Real Estate Trust has a net margin of 34.57% compared to Investors Real Estate Trust's net margin of 16.64%. Whitestone REIT's return on equity of 10.77% beat Investors Real Estate Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Whitestone REIT had 3 more articles in the media than Investors Real Estate Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Whitestone REIT and 0 mentions for Investors Real Estate Trust. Investors Real Estate Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Whitestone REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Whitestone REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Whitestone REIT has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investors Real Estate Trust has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Whitestone REIT beats Investors Real Estate Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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