ELME vs. EPRT, LB, VCTR, IRT, PECO, CTRE, AHR, PJT, AB, and SNEX
Should you be buying Elme Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elme Communities include Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), LandBridge (LB), Victory Capital (VCTR), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), PJT Partners (PJT), AllianceBernstein (AB), and StoneX Group (SNEX). 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 contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 103.5% 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 -514.3% 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.
In the previous week, Elme Communities had 2 more articles in the media than Essential Properties Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Elme Communities and 17 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust. Essential Properties Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Elme Communities' score of 0.42 indicating that Essential Properties Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Elme Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Essential Properties Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $34.55, indicating a potential upside of 8.77%. Elme Communities has a consensus price target of $17.67, indicating a potential upside of 3.16%. Given Essential Properties Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Essential Properties Realty Trust is more favorable than Elme Communities.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 45.15% compared to Elme Communities' net margin of -5.42%. Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity of 6.12% beat Elme Communities' return on equity.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elme Communities has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Essential Properties Realty Trust received 203 more outperform votes than Elme Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 18.75% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.
Summary
Essential Properties Realty Trust beats Elme Communities on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ELME) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
