VRE vs. SAFE, UNIT, LADR, ELME, JBGS, AAT, LTC, TWO, NTST, and PMT
Should you be buying Veris Residential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veris Residential include Safehold (SAFE), Uniti Group (UNIT), Ladder Capital (LADR), Elme Communities (ELME), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), American Assets Trust (AAT), LTC Properties (LTC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), NETSTREIT (NTST), and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Safehold received 209 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.06% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Veris Residential had 6 more articles in the media than Safehold. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Veris Residential and 4 mentions for Safehold. Veris Residential's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Safehold's score of 0.23 indicating that Safehold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safehold has a net margin of -15.59% compared to Safehold's net margin of -38.30%. Veris Residential's return on equity of 4.31% beat Safehold's return on equity.
70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by 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 higher revenue and earnings than Veris Residential. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veris Residential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safehold has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Safehold pays out -87.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veris Residential pays out -17.1% 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. Safehold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Safehold currently has a consensus price target of $28.40, indicating a potential upside of 54.77%. Veris Residential has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.04%. Given Veris Residential's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Safehold is more favorable than Veris Residential.
Summary
Safehold beats Veris Residential on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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