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Elme Communities (ELME) Competitors

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$16.30 -0.26 (-1.57%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

ELME vs. EPRT, MC, VIRT, LB, PECO, IRT, AB, VCTR, HHH, and APAM

Should you be buying Elme Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elme Communities include Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Moelis & Company (MC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), LandBridge (LB), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), AllianceBernstein (AB), Victory Capital (VCTR), Howard Hughes (HHH), and Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.

Elme Communities vs.

Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) and Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.

Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elme Communities has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Elme Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Elme Communities shares are owned by 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.

Essential Properties Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $33.37, suggesting a potential upside of 1.54%. Elme Communities has a consensus price target of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.34%. Given Elme Communities' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Elme Communities is more favorable than Essential Properties Realty Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Essential Properties Realty Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
Elme Communities
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 100.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Elme Communities pays out -480.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Elme Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Essential Properties Realty Trust received 200 more outperform votes than Elme Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.13% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 15.38% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Essential Properties Realty TrustOutperform Votes
202
63.13%
Underperform Votes
118
36.88%
Elme CommunitiesOutperform Votes
2
15.38%
Underperform Votes
11
84.62%

In the previous week, Essential Properties Realty Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Elme Communities. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Elme Communities. Elme Communities' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's score of 1.56 indicating that Elme Communities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Essential Properties Realty Trust
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Elme Communities
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 46.00% compared to Elme Communities' net margin of -5.51%. Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity of 6.20% beat Elme Communities' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Essential Properties Realty Trust46.00% 6.20% 3.82%
Elme Communities -5.51%-1.17%-0.70%

Essential Properties Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Elme Communities. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essential Properties Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Essential Properties Realty Trust$359.60M16.02$190.71M$1.1528.57
Elme Communities$227.91M6.29-$52.98M-$0.15-108.66

Summary

Essential Properties Realty Trust beats Elme Communities on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ELME vs. The Competition

MetricElme CommunitiesReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.43B$7.49B$10.92B$19.82B
Dividend Yield4.35%6.52%5.94%3.50%
P/E Ratio-108.6644.0330.2542.31
Price / Sales6.298.0062.6520.82
Price / Cash36.1917.8018.6821.65
Price / Book1.311.863.834.66
Net Income-$52.98M$145.32M$997.65M$983.45M
7 Day Performance-7.70%-2.86%-0.06%-2.12%
1 Month Performance-5.48%-3.96%1.98%-0.47%
1 Year Performance22.46%16.69%25.34%24.69%

Elme Communities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ELME
Elme Communities
1.6808 of 5 stars
$16.30
-1.6%
$17.33
+6.3%
+22.5%$1.43B$227.91M-108.66100Positive News
EPRT
Essential Properties Realty Trust
3.606 of 5 stars
$32.68
-1.1%
N/A+41.6%$5.73B$427.64M28.4240Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
MC
Moelis & Company
1.8768 of 5 stars
$76.31
+1.3%
N/A+66.5%$5.72B$854.75M143.981,161Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
VIRT
Virtu Financial
4.7295 of 5 stars
$35.19
+0.7%
N/A+99.7%$5.44B$2.58B17.68990Dividend Announcement
Positive News
LB
LandBridge
1.0635 of 5 stars
$66.34
-6.1%
N/AN/A$4.85BN/A18.636Positive News
PECO
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.
2.2979 of 5 stars
$38.74
-0.9%
N/A+12.4%$4.75B$610.12M84.22290Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
IRT
Independence Realty Trust
3.1678 of 5 stars
$20.85
-0.3%
N/A+58.5%$4.69B$646.12M18.50952Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
AB
AllianceBernstein
4.0501 of 5 stars
$37.05
+3.5%
N/A+30.2%$4.27B$433.88M10.624,707News Coverage
VCTR
Victory Capital
4.0431 of 5 stars
$63.51
+0.2%
N/A+98.7%$4.12B$866.90M15.80481Analyst Forecast
HHH
Howard Hughes
1.5917 of 5 stars
$80.84
-1.6%
N/A+8.0%$4.05B$1.02B53.54608
APAM
Artisan Partners Asset Management
1.9622 of 5 stars
$47.80
+1.4%
N/A+23.0%$3.84B$975.10M13.31500Short Interest ↑

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This page (NYSE:ELME) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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