UDR (UDR) Competitors

AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) and UDR (NYSE:UDR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do analysts recommend AVB or UDR?

AvalonBay Communities currently has a consensus target price of $238.64, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. UDR has a consensus target price of $46.12, suggesting a potential upside of 4.25%. Given AvalonBay Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe AvalonBay Communities is more favorable than UDR.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AvalonBay Communities	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.53
UDR	1 Sell rating(s)	10 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Which has higher valuation and earnings, AVB or UDR?

AvalonBay Communities has higher revenue and earnings than UDR. AvalonBay Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UDR, 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
AvalonBay Communities	$2.91B	10.41	$1.08B	$7.59	28.09
UDR	$1.67B	8.76	$89.58M	$0.25	176.94

Do insiders and institutionals believe in AVB or UDR?

92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of UDR shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of UDR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is AVB or UDR a better dividend stock?

AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. UDR pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. AvalonBay Communities pays out 92.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UDR pays out 688.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UDR has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. UDR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is AVB or UDR more profitable?

AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 37.13% compared to UDR's net margin of 5.36%. AvalonBay Communities' return on equity of 9.15% beat UDR's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AvalonBay Communities	37.13%	9.15%	5.15%
UDR	5.36%	2.65%	0.86%

Does the media prefer AVB or UDR?

In the previous week, UDR had 2 more articles in the media than AvalonBay Communities. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for UDR and 14 mentions for AvalonBay Communities. AvalonBay Communities' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat UDR's score of 0.97 indicating that AvalonBay Communities is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
AvalonBay Communities	13 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
UDR	12 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, AVB or UDR?

AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, UDR has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AVB or UDR?

AvalonBay Communities received 215 more outperform votes than UDR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.21% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 54.31% of users gave UDR an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AvalonBay Communities	Outperform Votes 675 60.21%	Underperform Votes 446 39.79%
UDR	Outperform Votes 460 54.31%	Underperform Votes 387 45.69%

Summary

AvalonBay Communities beats UDR on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.