IRET vs. OLP, WSR, ILPT, NREF, GPMT, REFI, FSP, PINE, PSTL, and BHR
Should you be buying Investors Real Estate Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investors Real Estate Trust include One Liberty Properties (OLP), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), and Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE:IRET) and One Liberty Properties (NYSE:OLP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, dividends and earnings.
One Liberty Properties has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.87%. Given One Liberty Properties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe One Liberty Properties is more favorable than Investors Real Estate Trust.
Investors Real Estate Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. One Liberty Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. 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. One Liberty Properties pays out 130.4% 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 higher revenue and earnings than One Liberty Properties. Investors Real Estate Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than One Liberty Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Investors Real Estate Trust has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, One Liberty Properties has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Investors Real Estate Trust has a net margin of 34.57% compared to One Liberty Properties' net margin of 32.67%. Investors Real Estate Trust's return on equity of 10.77% beat One Liberty Properties' return on equity.
Investors Real Estate Trust received 29 more outperform votes than One Liberty Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.26% of users gave Investors Real Estate Trust an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave One Liberty Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Investors Real Estate Trust had 1 more articles in the media than One Liberty Properties. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Investors Real Estate Trust and 0 mentions for One Liberty Properties. One Liberty Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Investors Real Estate Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that One Liberty Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.4% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.2% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Investors Real Estate Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Investors Real Estate Trust beats One Liberty Properties on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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