AMT vs. WELL, PSA, EXR, WY, VTR, CUBE, OHI, RHP, HR, and RYN
Should you be buying American Tower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Tower include Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Ventas (VTR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), and Rayonier (RYN). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Welltower (NYSE:WELL) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Welltower presently has a consensus target price of $96.93, indicating a potential downside of 3.69%. American Tower has a consensus target price of $221.91, indicating a potential upside of 19.77%. Given Welltower's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Tower is more favorable than Welltower.
In the previous week, American Tower had 8 more articles in the media than Welltower. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for American Tower and 6 mentions for Welltower. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Welltower's score of 1.09 indicating that Welltower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Welltower. American Tower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Welltower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Tower has a net margin of 18.42% compared to American Tower's net margin of 6.37%. Welltower's return on equity of 18.45% beat American Tower's return on equity.
Welltower has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.8% of Welltower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Welltower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Tower received 265 more outperform votes than Welltower when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 60.83% of users gave Welltower an outperform vote.
Welltower pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Welltower pays out 301.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Tower pays out 146.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Welltower has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. American Tower is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
American Tower beats Welltower on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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