UMH vs. AIV, AVB, EQR, ESS, MAA, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, and PECO
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 Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) and UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
UMH Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. UMH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apartment Investment and Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of UMH Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of UMH Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apartment Investment and Management received 140 more outperform votes than UMH Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.84% of users gave UMH Properties an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
UMH Properties has a net margin of 3.42% compared to UMH Properties' net margin of -86.84%. Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity of 1.92% beat UMH Properties' return on equity.
UMH Properties has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.70%. Given Apartment Investment and Management's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe UMH Properties is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
In the previous week, UMH Properties had 6 more articles in the media than Apartment Investment and Management. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for UMH Properties and 7 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat UMH Properties' score of 0.25 indicating that UMH Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UMH Properties has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UMH Properties beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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