Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) Competitors

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

Do analysts rate EPRT or TPG?

Essential Properties Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $34.55, indicating a potential upside of 9.46%. TPG has a consensus target price of $64.27, indicating a potential upside of 14.34%. Given TPG's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TPG 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)	3 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
TPG	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.42

Is EPRT or TPG a better dividend stock?

Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. TPG pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. TPG pays out -345.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of EPRT or TPG?

97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of TPG shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 76.5% of TPG shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better earnings and valuation, EPRT or TPG?

Essential Properties Realty Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TPG. TPG 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Essential Properties Realty Trust	$449.61M	13.18	$203M	$1.14	27.69
TPG	$3.50B	5.86	$23.48M	-$0.44	-127.75

Which has more risk & volatility, EPRT or TPG?

Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TPG has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor EPRT or TPG?

In the previous week, Essential Properties Realty Trust had 3 more articles in the media than TPG. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust and 15 mentions for TPG. Essential Properties Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat TPG's score of 0.35 indicating that Essential Properties Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Essential Properties Realty Trust	9 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
TPG	4 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer EPRT or TPG?

Essential Properties Realty Trust received 187 more outperform votes than TPG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 23.17% of users gave TPG an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Essential Properties Realty Trust	Outperform Votes 206 63.19%	Underperform Votes 120 36.81%
TPG	Outperform Votes 19 23.17%	Underperform Votes 63 76.83%

Is EPRT or TPG more profitable?

Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 45.15% compared to TPG's net margin of 0.67%. TPG's return on equity of 24.66% beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Essential Properties Realty Trust	45.15%	6.12%	3.76%
TPG	0.67%	24.66%	8.15%

Summary

Essential Properties Realty Trust beats TPG on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.