BRT vs. PSTL, NLOP, REFI, ACRE, ILPT, CTO, NREF, CLDT, PINE, and IVR
Should you be buying BRT Apartments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BRT Apartments include Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT) and Postal Realty Trust (NYSE:PSTL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Postal Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. BRT Apartments pays out 454.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Postal Realty Trust pays out 960.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BRT Apartments received 244 more outperform votes than Postal Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.69% of users gave BRT Apartments an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Postal Realty Trust an outperform vote.
BRT Apartments has higher revenue and earnings than Postal Realty Trust. BRT Apartments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Postal Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Postal Realty Trust has a net margin of 5.42% compared to BRT Apartments' net margin of 5.10%. BRT Apartments' return on equity of 2.06% beat Postal Realty Trust's return on equity.
BRT Apartments has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Postal Realty Trust has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BRT Apartments had 7 more articles in the media than Postal Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BRT Apartments and 2 mentions for Postal Realty Trust. Postal Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat BRT Apartments' score of 0.19 indicating that Postal Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BRT Apartments presently has a consensus price target of $22.25, indicating a potential upside of 26.13%. Postal Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 20.17%. Given BRT Apartments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than Postal Realty Trust.
29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.9% of Postal Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.2% of BRT Apartments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Postal Realty Trust shares are owned 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.
Summary
BRT Apartments beats Postal Realty Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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