MAA vs. AVB, EQR, ESS, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, AIV, UMH, and WELL
Should you be buying Mid-America Apartment Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-America Apartment Communities include AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), UMH Properties (UMH), and Welltower (WELL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) and Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 34.05% compared to AvalonBay Communities' net margin of 25.92%. AvalonBay Communities' return on equity of 8.90% beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' return on equity.
In the previous week, Mid-America Apartment Communities had 5 more articles in the media than AvalonBay Communities. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Mid-America Apartment Communities and 12 mentions for AvalonBay Communities. Mid-America Apartment Communities' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat AvalonBay Communities' score of 0.84 indicating that AvalonBay Communities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AvalonBay Communities presently has a consensus target price of $203.39, suggesting a potential upside of 7.85%. Mid-America Apartment Communities has a consensus target price of $144.18, suggesting a potential upside of 11.96%. Given AvalonBay Communities' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mid-America Apartment Communities is more favorable than AvalonBay Communities.
AvalonBay Communities received 164 more outperform votes than Mid-America Apartment Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave Mid-America Apartment Communities an outperform vote.
AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. AvalonBay Communities pays out 101.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays out 123.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AvalonBay Communities has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Mid-America Apartment Communities has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Mid-America Apartment Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AvalonBay Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Mid-America Apartment Communities. Mid-America Apartment Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AvalonBay Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AvalonBay Communities beats Mid-America Apartment Communities on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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