ESRT vs. ROIC, RLJ, LTC, IVT, CXW, RC, ARI, SAFE, VRE, and LADR
Should you be buying Empire State Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empire State Realty Trust include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), CoreCivic (CXW), Ready Capital (RC), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Safehold (SAFE), Veris Residential (VRE), and Ladder Capital (LADR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Retail Opportunity Investments currently has a consensus price target of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 15.69%. Empire State Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $8.33, suggesting a potential downside of 12.65%. Given Empire State Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Empire State Realty Trust.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 11.21% compared to Retail Opportunity Investments' net margin of 6.51%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 2.85% beat Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 87 more outperform votes than Empire State Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Empire State Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Empire State Realty Trust 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.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Retail Opportunity Investments has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Retail Opportunity Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Empire State Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Retail Opportunity Investments. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments. Empire State Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.95 beat Retail Opportunity Investments' score of 1.44 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats Empire State Realty Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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