AVB vs. EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, VICI, EXR, and IRM
Should you be buying AvalonBay Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AvalonBay Communities include Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), VICI Properties (VICI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), and Iron Mountain (IRM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) and Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Equity Residential shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Equity Residential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AvalonBay Communities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Equity Residential. Equity Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AvalonBay Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AvalonBay Communities received 174 more outperform votes than Equity Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.29% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave Equity Residential an outperform vote.
AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Equity Residential pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. AvalonBay Communities pays out 101.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equity Residential pays out 112.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
AvalonBay Communities currently has a consensus target price of $202.83, indicating a potential upside of 1.98%. Equity Residential has a consensus target price of $68.22, indicating a potential upside of 1.62%. Given AvalonBay Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe AvalonBay Communities is more favorable than Equity Residential.
AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 34.05% compared to Equity Residential's net margin of 31.70%. Equity Residential's return on equity of 8.18% beat AvalonBay Communities' return on equity.
AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Residential has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AvalonBay Communities had 7 more articles in the media than Equity Residential. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for AvalonBay Communities and 24 mentions for Equity Residential. Equity Residential's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat AvalonBay Communities' score of 0.59 indicating that Equity Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AvalonBay Communities beats Equity Residential on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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