SAFE vs. ARI, VRE, LADR, LTC, ELME, RC, JBGS, TWO, AAT, and NTST
Should you be buying Safehold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safehold include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Veris Residential (VRE), Ladder Capital (LADR), LTC Properties (LTC), Elme Communities (ELME), Ready Capital (RC), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), and NETSTREIT (NTST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Safehold has a net margin of -7.87% 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 Safehold's return on equity.
Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Safehold pays out -157.8% 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.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Safehold. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Safehold had 20 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Safehold and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Safehold's score of 0.01 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Safehold currently has a consensus target price of $27.22, indicating a potential upside of 34.90%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 1.12%. Given Safehold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Safehold is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 105 more outperform votes than Safehold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 55.15% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.
Safehold has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Safehold and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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