AKR vs. ROIC, ALX, BFS, SKT, MAC, KRG, ADC, DRH, PEB, and GNL
Should you be buying Acadia Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acadia Realty Trust include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), and Global Net Lease (GNL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) and Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Acadia Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.00%. Retail Opportunity Investments has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 15.69%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Acadia Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acadia Realty Trust. Retail Opportunity Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust and Acadia Realty Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Acadia Realty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 900.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Retail Opportunity Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 11.21% compared to Acadia Realty Trust's net margin of 2.38%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 2.75% beat Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 36 more outperform votes than Acadia Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Acadia Realty Trust on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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