ROIC vs. TWO, AAT, MFA, ABR, RPAI, ADC, KRG, MAC, SKT, and AKR
Should you be buying Retail Opportunity Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retail Opportunity Investments include Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), MFA Financial (MFA), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), Retail Properties of America (RPAI), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), and Acadia Realty Trust (AKR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Two Harbors Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.0%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Two Harbors Investment 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. Two Harbors Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Two Harbors Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Two Harbors Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Retail Opportunity Investments currently has a consensus price target of $14.38, suggesting a potential upside of 14.82%. Two Harbors Investment has a consensus price target of $14.57, suggesting a potential upside of 13.40%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Two Harbors Investment.
In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 3 more articles in the media than Two Harbors Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 2 mentions for Two Harbors Investment. Two Harbors Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Retail Opportunity Investments' score of 0.72 indicating that Two Harbors Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Two Harbors Investment has a net margin of 56.90% compared to Retail Opportunity Investments' net margin of 11.21%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 2.75% beat Two Harbors Investment's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Two Harbors Investment. Two Harbors Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Two Harbors Investment received 188 more outperform votes than Retail Opportunity Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave Two Harbors Investment an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Two Harbors Investment has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Two Harbors Investment on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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