PKST vs. NAVI, SAFE, VRE, ELME, JBGS, LADR, GETY, WT, SILA, and NXRT
Should you be buying Peakstone Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peakstone Realty Trust include Navient (NAVI), Safehold (SAFE), Veris Residential (VRE), Elme Communities (ELME), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Ladder Capital (LADR), Getty Images (GETY), WisdomTree (WT), Sila Realty Trust (SILA), and NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE:PKST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
In the previous week, Navient had 6 more articles in the media than Peakstone Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Navient and 0 mentions for Peakstone Realty Trust. Peakstone Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Navient's score of 0.35 indicating that Peakstone Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navient has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peakstone Realty Trust has a beta of 2.63, indicating that its share price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navient received 425 more outperform votes than Peakstone Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.41% of users gave Navient an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Peakstone Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Navient has a net margin of 3.41% compared to Peakstone Realty Trust's net margin of -60.76%. Navient's return on equity of 11.06% beat Peakstone Realty Trust's return on equity.
Navient presently has a consensus price target of $15.56, indicating a potential downside of 1.80%. Peakstone Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.11%. Given Navient's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Navient is more favorable than Peakstone Realty Trust.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than Peakstone Realty Trust. Peakstone Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.1% of Navient shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.0% of Navient shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Peakstone Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Navient pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peakstone Realty Trust pays out -5.8% 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. Peakstone Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Navient beats Peakstone Realty Trust on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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