BN vs. PDM, GYRO, WEWKQ, WE, MAYS, WFC, HSBC, AXP, MS, and RY
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Gyrodyne (GYRO), WeWork (WEWKQ), WeWork (WE), J.W. Mays (MAYS), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), HSBC (HSBC), American Express (AXP), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Royal Bank of Canada (RY).
Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE:PDM) and Brookfield (NYSE:BN) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
84.5% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Brookfield shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Piedmont Office Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Brookfield shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust received 290 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.73% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Piedmont Office Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Brookfield pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Piedmont Office Realty Trust pays out -82.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield pays out 52.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brookfield has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield has a consensus price target of $48.10, indicating a potential upside of 15.49%. Given Piedmont Office Realty Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield is more favorable than Piedmont Office Realty Trust.
Brookfield has higher revenue and earnings than Piedmont Office Realty Trust. Piedmont Office Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brookfield had 4 more articles in the media than Piedmont Office Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Brookfield and 3 mentions for Piedmont Office Realty Trust. Piedmont Office Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Brookfield's score of 1.10 indicating that Brookfield is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield has a net margin of 1.16% compared to Brookfield's net margin of -12.90%. Piedmont Office Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.15% beat Brookfield's return on equity.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brookfield beats Piedmont Office Realty Trust on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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