Financial Review: BRT Apartments (BRT) vs. Its Rivals

BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT) is one of 57 public companies in the “Residential REITs” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare BRT Apartments to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for BRT Apartments and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BRT Apartments	1	1	2	0	2.25
BRT Apartments Competitors	619	3261	3375	147	2.41

BRT Apartments presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.26%. As a group, “Residential REITs” companies have a potential upside of 11.15%. Given BRT Apartments’ higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares BRT Apartments and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BRT Apartments	-13.22%	-7.46%	-1.84%
BRT Apartments Competitors	9.75%	2.37%	2.33%

Dividends

BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. BRT Apartments pays out -142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Residential REITs” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.6% and pay out 248.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. BRT Apartments is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares BRT Apartments and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BRT Apartments	$97.03 million	-$11.95 million	-18.52
BRT Apartments Competitors	$780.03 million	$238.42 million	37.24

BRT Apartments’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than BRT Apartments. BRT Apartments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of shares of all “Residential REITs” companies are held by institutional investors. 42.2% of BRT Apartments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of shares of all “Residential REITs” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

BRT Apartments has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRT Apartments’ competitors have a beta of 0.68, suggesting that their average stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BRT Apartments competitors beat BRT Apartments on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About BRT Apartments

BRT Apartments Corp. is a real estate investment trust. It engages in the ownership, operation, and holding interests in joint ventures that own and operate multi-family properties. The company was founded in June 1972 and is headquartered in Great Neck, NY.