VRE vs. AIRC, RITM, KRG, EPRT, VNO, RYN, IRT, PECO, KRC, and CTRE
Should you be buying Veris Residential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veris Residential include Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Rithm Capital (RITM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Rayonier (RYN), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Kilroy Realty (KRC), and CareTrust REIT (CTRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Apartment Income REIT received 20 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT currently has a consensus target price of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 5.55%. Veris Residential has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.60%. Given Apartment Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Veris Residential is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Veris Residential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Apartment Income REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Veris Residential. Veris Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Apartment Income REIT's net margin of -32.51%. Veris Residential's return on equity of 25.86% beat Apartment Income REIT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Apartment Income REIT had 6 more articles in the media than Veris Residential. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Apartment Income REIT and 1 mentions for Veris Residential. Apartment Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Veris Residential's score of 1.49 indicating that Veris Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veris Residential pays out -21.0% 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. Veris Residential has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Apartment Income REIT beats Veris Residential on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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