VRE vs. EPRT, JHG, VIRT, CTRE, LB, IRT, AHR, PIPR, MC, and PECO
Should you be buying Veris Residential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veris Residential include Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Virtu Financial (VIRT), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), LandBridge (LB), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Moelis & Company (MC), and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Veris Residential vs.
Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Essential Properties Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $34.91, indicating a potential upside of 7.14%. Veris Residential has a consensus target price of $18.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.84%. Given Veris Residential's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Veris Residential is more favorable than Essential Properties Realty Trust.
Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 103.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Veris Residential pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Veris Residential. Veris Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essential Properties Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Essential Properties Realty Trust had 8 more articles in the media than Veris Residential. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust and 3 mentions for Veris Residential. Veris Residential's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's score of 1.49 indicating that Veris Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Essential Properties Realty Trust received 200 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.00% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 45.15% compared to Veris Residential's net margin of -5.70%. Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity of 6.12% beat Veris Residential's return on equity.
97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Essential Properties Realty Trust beats Veris Residential on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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