Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV – Get Free Report) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Apartment Investment and Management and Community Healthcare Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Apartment Investment and Management | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Community Healthcare Trust | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2.50 |
Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $33.67, indicating a potential upside of 27.86%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
Dividends
Insider & Institutional Ownership
83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Community Healthcare 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.
Profitability
This table compares Apartment Investment and Management and Community Healthcare Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Apartment Investment and Management | -88.87% | -30.04% | -7.60% |
Community Healthcare Trust | 6.84% | 1.52% | 0.84% |
Volatility & Risk
Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Apartment Investment and Management and Community Healthcare Trust’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Apartment Investment and Management | $187.00 million | 6.23 | -$166.20 million | ($1.17) | -6.88 |
Community Healthcare Trust | $112.85 million | 6.46 | $7.71 million | $0.21 | 125.38 |
Community Healthcare Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Community Healthcare Trust beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Apartment Investment and Management
Aimco is a diversified real estate company primarily focused on value add and opportunistic investments, targeting the U.S. multifamily sector. Aimco's mission is to make real estate investments where outcomes are enhanced through our human capital so that substantial value is created for investors, teammates, and the communities in which we operate. Aimco is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as AIV.
About Community Healthcare Trust
Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had investments of approximately $1.1 billion in 193 real estate properties (including a portion of one property accounted for as a sales-type lease and two properties classified as held for sale). The properties are located in 34 states, totaling approximately 4.3 million square feet in the aggregate.
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