JBGS vs. ARI, LADR, ELME, VRE, LTC, TWO, SAFE, AAT, RC, and ESRT
Should you be buying JBG SMITH Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JBG SMITH Properties include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ladder Capital (LADR), Elme Communities (ELME), Veris Residential (VRE), LTC Properties (LTC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Safehold (SAFE), American Assets Trust (AAT), Ready Capital (RC), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
JBG SMITH Properties (NYSE:JBGS) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
JBG SMITH Properties has a net margin of -22.37% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 5.88% beat JBG SMITH Properties' return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JBG SMITH Properties. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JBG SMITH Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JBG SMITH Properties presently has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.42%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 3.23%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is more favorable than JBG SMITH Properties.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 41 more outperform votes than JBG SMITH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.64% of users gave JBG SMITH Properties an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
98.5% of JBG SMITH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of JBG SMITH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 8 more articles in the media than JBG SMITH Properties. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 13 mentions for JBG SMITH Properties. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat JBG SMITH Properties' score of -0.02 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JBG SMITH Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. JBG SMITH Properties pays out -50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
JBG SMITH Properties has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats JBG SMITH Properties on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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