ABR vs. BNL, ROIC, TWO, AAT, PECO, REXR, NLY, CUBE, BXP, and FRT
Should you be buying Arbor Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arbor Realty Trust include Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), American Assets Trust (AAT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Broadstone Net Lease (NYSE:BNL) and Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Broadstone Net Lease has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arbor Realty Trust received 264 more outperform votes than Broadstone Net Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave Arbor Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Broadstone Net Lease an outperform vote.
Arbor Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Broadstone Net Lease. Arbor Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadstone Net Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Broadstone Net Lease and Broadstone Net Lease both had 4 articles in the media. Arbor Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Broadstone Net Lease's score of 0.66 indicating that Broadstone Net Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Broadstone Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Arbor Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.6%. Broadstone Net Lease pays out 118.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arbor Realty Trust pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Broadstone Net Lease has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Arbor Realty Trust has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Arbor Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Broadstone Net Lease presently has a consensus price target of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.12%. Arbor Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $14.71, indicating a potential upside of 7.52%. Given Arbor Realty Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Broadstone Net Lease is more favorable than Arbor Realty Trust.
Broadstone Net Lease has a net margin of 42.23% compared to Broadstone Net Lease's net margin of 26.05%. Broadstone Net Lease's return on equity of 17.04% beat Arbor Realty Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Arbor Realty Trust beats Broadstone Net Lease on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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