SCI vs. AIRC, LAUR, DRVN, AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, SDA, IRS, ALLG, and DAO
Should you be buying Service Co. International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Co. International include Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Allego (ALLG), and Youdao (DAO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Service Co. International shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Apartment Income REIT's net margin of 12.73%. Apartment Income REIT's return on equity of 32.23% beat Service Co. International's return on equity.
Service Co. International received 312 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.23% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT presently has a consensus price target of $36.59, indicating a potential downside of 6.38%. Service Co. International has a consensus price target of $78.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.80%. Given Apartment Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Service Co. International is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Apartment Income REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Service Co. International. Apartment Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Service Co. International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Service Co. International pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Service Co. International pays out 34.5% 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. Service Co. International has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Co. International has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Service Co. International had 9 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Service Co. International and 1 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Apartment Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Service Co. International's score of 0.00 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Service Co. International beats Apartment Income REIT on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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