WT vs. EPRT, FRHC, VIRT, MC, PIPR, PECO, IRT, AB, HHH, and HASI
Should you be buying WisdomTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WisdomTree include Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Freedom (FRHC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Moelis & Company (MC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), AllianceBernstein (AB), Howard Hughes (HHH), and Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 48.12% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 19.72%. WisdomTree's return on equity of 19.22% beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity.
WisdomTree has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.6% of WisdomTree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. WisdomTree pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 94.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Essential Properties Realty Trust received 178 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 62.70% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. WisdomTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essential Properties Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, WisdomTree had 3 more articles in the media than Essential Properties Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for WisdomTree and 3 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust. Essential Properties Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat WisdomTree's score of 0.27 indicating that Essential Properties Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WisdomTree currently has a consensus target price of $11.96, suggesting a potential upside of 29.34%. Essential Properties Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $31.73, suggesting a potential downside of 1.09%. Given WisdomTree's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Essential Properties Realty Trust.
Summary
Essential Properties Realty Trust beats WisdomTree on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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