UMH vs. AIV, AVB, EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, and RITM
Should you be buying UMH Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UMH Properties include Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), and Rithm Capital (RITM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
UMH Properties vs.
UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) and Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
UMH Properties presently has a consensus target price of $21.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.37%. Given UMH Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
UMH Properties has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMH Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 11.81% compared to Apartment Investment and Management's net margin of -119.76%. UMH Properties' return on equity of 6.06% beat Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity.
Apartment Investment and Management received 138 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, UMH Properties had 9 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for UMH Properties and 2 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat UMH Properties' score of 0.75 indicating that Apartment Investment and Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.4% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UMH) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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