Alternative Income REIT (AIRE) Competitors

Alternative Income REIT (LON:AIRE) and abrdn Equity Income Trust (LON:AEI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.

Which has more risk and volatility, AIRE or AEI?

Alternative Income REIT has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Equity Income Trust has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in AIRE or AEI?

24.2% of Alternative Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.1% of abrdn Equity Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.9% of Alternative Income REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of abrdn Equity Income Trust 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AIRE or AEI?

Alternative Income REIT and abrdn Equity Income Trust both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alternative Income REIT	N/A	N/A
abrdn Equity Income Trust	N/A	N/A

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, AIRE or AEI?

Alternative Income REIT has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn Equity Income Trust. abrdn Equity Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alternative Income REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alternative Income REIT	£7.52M	7.06	£2.24M	£3.08	22.52
abrdn Equity Income Trust	£3.37M	46.59	-£220.80K	-£0.46	-709.77

Does the media refer more to AIRE or AEI?

In the previous week, Alternative Income REIT had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Equity Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Alternative Income REIT and 0 mentions for abrdn Equity Income Trust. Alternative Income REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled abrdn Equity Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Alternative Income REIT	Neutral
abrdn Equity Income Trust	Neutral

Is AIRE or AEI a better dividend stock?

Alternative Income REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. abrdn Equity Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Alternative Income REIT pays out 195.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. abrdn Equity Income Trust pays out -4,961.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is AIRE or AEI more profitable?

Alternative Income REIT has a net margin of 29.84% compared to abrdn Equity Income Trust's net margin of -6.55%. Alternative Income REIT's return on equity of 3.60% beat abrdn Equity Income Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alternative Income REIT	29.84%	3.60%	3.56%
abrdn Equity Income Trust	-6.55%	-0.14%	0.71%

Summary

Alternative Income REIT beats abrdn Equity Income Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.