IVT vs. CXW, AKR, RLJ, ROIC, DRH, PEB, GNL, ESRT, LTC, and ARI
Should you be buying InvenTrust Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InvenTrust Properties include CoreCivic (CXW), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), Global Net Lease (GNL), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), LTC Properties (LTC), and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) and InvenTrust Properties (NYSE:IVT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, CoreCivic had 10 more articles in the media than InvenTrust Properties. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CoreCivic and 2 mentions for InvenTrust Properties. CoreCivic's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat InvenTrust Properties' score of 0.39 indicating that InvenTrust Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CoreCivic presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.16%. InvenTrust Properties has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.20%. Given InvenTrust Properties' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CoreCivic is more favorable than InvenTrust Properties.
CoreCivic has a net margin of 3.34% compared to CoreCivic's net margin of 2.70%. InvenTrust Properties' return on equity of 5.74% beat CoreCivic's return on equity.
CoreCivic has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InvenTrust Properties has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of InvenTrust Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of CoreCivic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of InvenTrust Properties 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.
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than InvenTrust Properties. CoreCivic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InvenTrust Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CoreCivic received 385 more outperform votes than InvenTrust Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.10% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 27.27% of users gave InvenTrust Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
CoreCivic beats InvenTrust Properties on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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