SAFE vs. ARI, VRE, LADR, RC, LTC, ELME, AAT, JBGS, TWO, and ROIC
Should you be buying Safehold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safehold include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Veris Residential (VRE), Ladder Capital (LADR), Ready Capital (RC), LTC Properties (LTC), Elme Communities (ELME), American Assets Trust (AAT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), and Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.4%. Safehold pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Safehold pays out -157.8% 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. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Safehold. Safehold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus price target of $10.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.00%. Safehold has a consensus price target of $27.22, indicating a potential upside of 31.57%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Safehold is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Safehold has a net margin of -7.87% compared to Safehold's net margin of -28.20%. Safehold's return on equity of 5.88% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 104 more outperform votes than Safehold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Safehold had 10 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Safehold and 1 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Safehold's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.16 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safehold has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Safehold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Safehold shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and Safehold tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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