PDM vs. NOAH, BFC, NXRT, BRSP, HPP, SLRC, BRKL, WRLD, HQH, and ABL
Should you be buying Piedmont Office Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Office Realty Trust include Noah (NOAH), Bank First (BFC), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), SLR Investment (SLRC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), World Acceptance (WRLD), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), and Abacus Life (ABL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Noah (NYSE:NOAH) and Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE:PDM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust received 60 more outperform votes than Noah when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.09% of users gave Noah an outperform vote while only 51.85% of users gave Piedmont Office Realty Trust an outperform vote.
42.7% of Noah shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 47.2% of Noah shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Noah has a net margin of 33.36% compared to Noah's net margin of -8.38%. Piedmont Office Realty Trust's return on equity of 10.05% beat Noah's return on equity.
Noah has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Office Realty Trust has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Noah presently has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.04%. Given Piedmont Office Realty Trust's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Noah is more favorable than Piedmont Office Realty Trust.
In the previous week, Piedmont Office Realty Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Noah. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Piedmont Office Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Noah. Piedmont Office Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Noah's score of 1.15 indicating that Noah is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Noah pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Noah pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays out -125.0% 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. Noah has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Noah has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Piedmont Office Realty Trust. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noah, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Noah beats Piedmont Office Realty Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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