UMH vs. AIV, AVB, EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, and PECO
Should you be buying UMH Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UMH Properties include Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), 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), and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
75.4% of UMH Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Apartment Investment and Management received 141 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.74% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
UMH Properties has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apartment Investment and Management had 1 more articles in the media than UMH Properties. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management and 3 mentions for UMH Properties. UMH Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Apartment Investment and Management's score of 0.93 indicating that UMH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UMH Properties presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.08%. Given UMH Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 3.42% compared to Apartment Investment and Management's net margin of -86.84%. UMH Properties' return on equity of 1.92% beat Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Investment and Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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