WSR vs. OLP, AAT, DHC, CHCT, INN, TRTX, KREF, GMRE, NYMT, and FPI
Should you be buying Whitestone REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whitestone REIT include One Liberty Properties (OLP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Farmland Partners (FPI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
One Liberty Properties (NYSE:OLP) and Whitestone REIT (NYSE:WSR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
One Liberty Properties presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.31%. Whitestone REIT has a consensus target price of $13.63, indicating a potential upside of 9.79%. Given One Liberty Properties' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Whitestone REIT is more favorable than One Liberty Properties.
One Liberty Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Whitestone REIT. One Liberty Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Whitestone REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
One Liberty Properties has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Whitestone REIT has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
One Liberty Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Whitestone REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. One Liberty Properties pays out 132.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitestone REIT pays out 104.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Whitestone REIT has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Whitestone REIT received 112 more outperform votes than One Liberty Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave Whitestone REIT an outperform vote while only 59.82% of users gave One Liberty Properties an outperform vote.
36.2% of One Liberty Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 25.4% of One Liberty Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Whitestone REIT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
One Liberty Properties has a net margin of 32.51% compared to One Liberty Properties' net margin of 16.64%. Whitestone REIT's return on equity of 9.56% beat One Liberty Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, One Liberty Properties and One Liberty Properties both had 3 articles in the media. Whitestone REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat One Liberty Properties' score of 0.53 indicating that One Liberty Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
One Liberty Properties beats Whitestone REIT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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