VRE vs. SAFE, ARI, LADR, ELME, RC, LTC, AAT, JBGS, TWO, and NTST
Should you be buying Veris Residential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veris Residential include Safehold (SAFE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ladder Capital (LADR), Elme Communities (ELME), Ready Capital (RC), LTC Properties (LTC), American Assets Trust (AAT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), and NETSTREIT (NTST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Safehold has higher revenue and earnings than Veris Residential. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veris Residential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Safehold has a net margin of -7.87% compared to Safehold's net margin of -32.51%. Veris Residential's return on equity of 4.43% beat Safehold's return on equity.
Safehold received 212 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.27% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
Safehold presently has a consensus target price of $27.22, indicating a potential upside of 31.57%. Veris Residential has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.78%. Given Veris Residential's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Safehold is more favorable than Veris Residential.
70.4% of Safehold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Safehold shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Safehold had 9 more articles in the media than Veris Residential. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Safehold and 2 mentions for Veris Residential. Safehold's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Veris Residential's score of 0.16 indicating that Veris Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Safehold pays out -157.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veris Residential pays out -21.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Veris Residential has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Safehold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Safehold has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Safehold beats Veris Residential on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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