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Piedmont Realty Trust (PDM) Competitors

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$7.50 -0.04 (-0.48%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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PDM vs. AAT, BDN, BXP, CUZ, DEI, HIW, JBGS, KRC, SLG, and VNO

Should you be buying Piedmont Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Realty Trust include American Assets Trust (AAT), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), BXP (BXP), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Highwoods Properties (HIW), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Kilroy Realty (KRC), SL Green Realty (SLG), and Vornado Realty Trust (VNO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Piedmont Realty Trust vs. Its Competitors

American Assets Trust (NYSE:AAT) and Piedmont Realty Trust (NYSE:PDM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk and dividends.

American Assets Trust has a net margin of 17.57% compared to Piedmont Realty Trust's net margin of -10.80%. American Assets Trust's return on equity of 7.02% beat Piedmont Realty Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
American Assets Trust17.57% 7.02% 2.54%
Piedmont Realty Trust -10.80%-3.82%-1.50%

American Assets Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Piedmont Realty Trust. Piedmont Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
American Assets Trust$457.86M2.71$72.82M$1.2716.01
Piedmont Realty Trust$570.32M1.64-$79.06M-$0.49-15.31

90.4% of American Assets Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Piedmont Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 36.8% of American Assets Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Piedmont Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

American Assets Trust presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.28%. Piedmont Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $8.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.49%. Given Piedmont Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Piedmont Realty Trust is more favorable than American Assets Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
American Assets Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Piedmont Realty Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

American Assets Trust has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Realty Trust has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, American Assets Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Piedmont Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for American Assets Trust and 3 mentions for Piedmont Realty Trust. American Assets Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Piedmont Realty Trust's score of 1.11 indicating that American Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
American Assets Trust
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Piedmont Realty Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

American Assets Trust beats Piedmont Realty Trust on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PDM vs. The Competition

MetricPiedmont Realty TrustREIT IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$938.04M$8.59B$12.28B$21.11B
Dividend YieldN/A5.70%5.54%3.60%
P/E Ratio-15.3137.2119.0328.44
Price / Sales1.644.9226.0958.65
Price / Cash6.2918.3021.6322.92
Price / Book0.591.682.204.69
Net Income-$79.06M$128.99M$997.25M$995.51M
7 Day Performance3.36%1.68%0.60%1.65%
1 Month Performance3.72%1.98%3.44%4.54%
1 Year Performance-14.19%-7.99%536.57%9.99%

Piedmont Realty Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDM
Piedmont Realty Trust
2.7119 of 5 stars
$7.50
-0.5%
$8.67
+15.5%
-10.3%$938.04M$570.32M-15.31150News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
AAT
American Assets Trust
3.3645 of 5 stars
$21.31
+0.7%
$21.00
-1.5%
-17.4%$1.30B$455.77M16.78220Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BDN
Brandywine Realty Trust
4.3905 of 5 stars
$4.36
+1.3%
$5.00
+14.8%
-16.3%$753.20M$505.52M-3.63330News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
BXP
BXP
2.8219 of 5 stars
$71.25
+0.7%
$79.08
+11.0%
+5.7%$11.28B$3.43B-3,560.62780Upcoming Earnings
CUZ
Cousins Properties
4.1704 of 5 stars
$29.14
+0.7%
$32.50
+11.5%
+10.2%$4.89B$897.85M88.29290Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
DEI
Douglas Emmett
3.5518 of 5 stars
$16.17
+0.4%
$17.88
+10.6%
+2.9%$2.71B$993.04M50.52750
HIW
Highwoods Properties
3.7451 of 5 stars
$31.91
+1.4%
$32.00
+0.3%
+3.7%$3.44B$814.97M19.82340News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
JBGS
JBG SMITH Properties
2.2184 of 5 stars
$18.47
+0.1%
$16.00
-13.4%
+19.0%$1.35B$547.31M-9.88910News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
KRC
Kilroy Realty
3.8682 of 5 stars
$37.21
+0.0%
$38.00
+2.1%
+5.6%$4.40B$1.13B22.15260News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
SLG
SL Green Realty
2.2555 of 5 stars
$63.58
-0.6%
$65.33
+2.8%
-4.1%$4.53B$938.24M-151.381,221Dividend Announcement
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Gap Up
VNO
Vornado Realty Trust
3.9092 of 5 stars
$38.74
+0.3%
$38.09
-1.7%
+40.4%$7.44B$1.81B74.492,996Positive News

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