LADR vs. SAFE, ELME, UNIT, AAT, JBGS, TWO, LTC, VRE, NTST, and DEA
Should you be buying Ladder Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ladder Capital include Safehold (SAFE), Elme Communities (ELME), Uniti Group (UNIT), American Assets Trust (AAT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), LTC Properties (LTC), Veris Residential (VRE), NETSTREIT (NTST), and Easterly Government Properties (DEA). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and Ladder Capital (NYSE:LADR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Ladder Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Ladder Capital shares are held by 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.
Safehold presently has a consensus price target of $28.40, indicating a potential upside of 55.96%. Ladder Capital has a consensus price target of $12.63, indicating a potential upside of 14.77%. Given Ladder Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Safehold is more favorable than Ladder Capital.
Ladder Capital received 84 more outperform votes than Safehold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.38% of users gave Ladder Capital an outperform vote while only 55.06% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.
Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Ladder Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Safehold pays out -87.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ladder Capital pays out 121.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Ladder Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Safehold. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ladder Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ladder Capital had 11 more articles in the media than Safehold. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Ladder Capital and 3 mentions for Safehold. Ladder Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Safehold's score of 0.67 indicating that Safehold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ladder Capital has a net margin of 18.10% compared to Ladder Capital's net margin of -15.59%. Safehold's return on equity of 9.26% beat Ladder Capital's return on equity.
Safehold has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ladder Capital has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ladder Capital beats Safehold on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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