WELL vs. EXR, VTR, PSA, LSI, CUBE, AMT, SPG, VICI, DLR, and SBAC
Should you be buying Welltower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Welltower include Extra Space Storage (EXR), Ventas (VTR), Public Storage (PSA), Life Storage (LSI), CubeSmart (CUBE), American Tower (AMT), Simon Property Group (SPG), VICI Properties (VICI), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), and SBA Communications (SBAC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Welltower vs.
Welltower (NYSE:WELL) and Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Extra Space Storage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Welltower. Extra Space Storage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Welltower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Welltower received 220 more outperform votes than Extra Space Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave Welltower an outperform vote while only 61.48% of users gave Extra Space Storage an outperform vote.
Welltower pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Extra Space Storage pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Welltower pays out 762.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Extra Space Storage pays out 101.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Extra Space Storage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
95.8% of Welltower shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Extra Space Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Welltower shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Extra Space Storage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Extra Space Storage has a net margin of 45.52% compared to Welltower's net margin of 2.41%. Extra Space Storage's return on equity of 22.01% beat Welltower's return on equity.
In the previous week, Welltower had 2 more articles in the media than Extra Space Storage. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Welltower and 4 mentions for Extra Space Storage. Welltower's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Extra Space Storage's score of 0.24 indicating that Welltower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Welltower presently has a consensus target price of $82.56, suggesting a potential upside of 18.01%. Extra Space Storage has a consensus target price of $170.89, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. Given Welltower's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Welltower is more favorable than Extra Space Storage.
Welltower has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Extra Space Storage has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Welltower beats Extra Space Storage on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WELL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Welltower Competitors List
