LADR vs. AIRC, RITM, KRG, EPRT, VNO, RYN, KRC, PECO, HASI, and IRT
Should you be buying Ladder Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ladder Capital include Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Rithm Capital (RITM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Rayonier (RYN), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), and Independence Realty Trust (IRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) and Ladder Capital (NYSE:LADR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Ladder Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of Ladder Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Apartment Income REIT currently has a consensus price target of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 5.58%. Ladder Capital has a consensus price target of $12.63, suggesting a potential upside of 12.92%. Given Apartment Income REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ladder Capital is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Apartment Income REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Ladder Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Apartment Income REIT pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ladder Capital pays out 121.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ladder Capital has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Ladder Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Apartment Income REIT's net margin of 18.10%. Ladder Capital's return on equity of 25.86% beat Apartment Income REIT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Apartment Income REIT had 6 more articles in the media than Ladder Capital. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Apartment Income REIT and 2 mentions for Ladder Capital. Ladder Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Apartment Income REIT's score of 0.40 indicating that Apartment Income REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ladder Capital has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ladder Capital received 273 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.38% of users gave Ladder Capital an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Ladder Capital. Apartment Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ladder Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Apartment Income REIT beats Ladder Capital on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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