PDM vs. BRDG, AMSF, GHLD, MQY, SLRC, BFS, ROOT, HQH, CGBD, and TCPC
Should you be buying Piedmont Office Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Office Realty Trust include Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Guild (GHLD), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), SLR Investment (SLRC), Saul Centers (BFS), Root (ROOT), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE:PDM) and Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and profitability.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridge Investment Group has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential upside of 33.67%. Given Bridge Investment Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bridge Investment Group is more favorable than Piedmont Office Realty Trust.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust received 289 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote while only 51.85% of users gave Piedmont Office Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Bridge Investment Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Piedmont Office Realty Trust. Bridge Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piedmont Office Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Piedmont Office Realty Trust and Piedmont Office Realty Trust both had 3 articles in the media. Bridge Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Piedmont Office Realty Trust's score of 1.01 indicating that Bridge Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bridge Investment Group has a net margin of 0.25% compared to Piedmont Office Realty Trust's net margin of -12.90%. Bridge Investment Group's return on equity of 10.23% beat Piedmont Office Realty Trust's return on equity.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays out -82.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bridge Investment Group pays out -116.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
84.5% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bridge Investment Group beats Piedmont Office Realty Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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