PKST vs. ELME, ESRT, NAVI, VRE, LADR, WT, UNIT, SILA, JBGS, and SAFE
Should you be buying Peakstone Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peakstone Realty Trust include Elme Communities (ELME), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Navient (NAVI), Veris Residential (VRE), Ladder Capital (LADR), WisdomTree (WT), Uniti Group (UNIT), Sila Realty Trust (SILA), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), and Safehold (SAFE). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Peakstone Realty Trust vs.
Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME) and Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE:PKST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Elme Communities has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peakstone Realty Trust has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Elme Communities received 1 more outperform votes than Peakstone Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 25.00% of users gave Peakstone Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 18.75% of users gave Elme Communities an outperform vote.
Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Peakstone Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Elme Communities pays out -514.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peakstone Realty Trust pays out -321.4% 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.
87.9% of Elme Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Elme Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Peakstone Realty Trust has a net margin of -4.38% compared to Elme Communities' net margin of -5.42%. Peakstone Realty Trust's return on equity of -0.85% beat Elme Communities' return on equity.
Elme Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Peakstone Realty Trust. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peakstone Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elme Communities currently has a consensus target price of $17.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.28%. Peakstone Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.82%. Given Peakstone Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Peakstone Realty Trust is more favorable than Elme Communities.
In the previous week, Peakstone Realty Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Elme Communities. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Peakstone Realty Trust and 8 mentions for Elme Communities. Peakstone Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Elme Communities' score of 0.39 indicating that Peakstone Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Peakstone Realty Trust beats Elme Communities on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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