ALEX vs. AIV, PMT, DEA, MFA, UMH, NTST, ALX, TWO, FBRT, and JBGS
Should you be buying Alexander & Baldwin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexander & Baldwin include Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), NETSTREIT (NTST), Alexander's (ALX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE:ALEX) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) 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, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Alexander & Baldwin currently has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.24%. Given Alexander & Baldwin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alexander & Baldwin is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
In the previous week, Alexander & Baldwin had 2 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Alexander & Baldwin and 6 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Alexander & Baldwin's score of 0.28 indicating that Apartment Investment and Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alexander & Baldwin has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexander & Baldwin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alexander & Baldwin has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Apartment Investment and Management's net margin of -86.84%. Alexander & Baldwin's return on equity of 4.76% beat Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity.
91.3% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alexander & Baldwin has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apartment Investment and Management received 57 more outperform votes than Alexander & Baldwin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.38% of users gave Alexander & Baldwin an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
Summary
Alexander & Baldwin beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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