BRT Apartments (NYSE:BRT – Get Free Report) and Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE:PKST – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for BRT Apartments and Peakstone Realty Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BRT Apartments | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Peakstone Realty Trust | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
BRT Apartments presently has a consensus target price of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.55%. Peakstone Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.58%. Given BRT Apartments’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BRT Apartments is more favorable than Peakstone Realty Trust.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BRT Apartments | $93.62 million | 3.68 | $3.87 million | ($0.49) | -37.47 |
| Peakstone Realty Trust | $254.28 million | 2.03 | -$550.58 million | ($1.18) | -12.05 |
BRT Apartments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Peakstone Realty Trust. BRT Apartments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peakstone Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dividends
BRT Apartments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Peakstone Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. BRT Apartments pays out -204.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peakstone Realty Trust pays out -76.3% 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.
Risk & Volatility
BRT Apartments has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peakstone Realty Trust has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares BRT Apartments and Peakstone Realty Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BRT Apartments | -9.24% | -3.89% | -1.24% |
| Peakstone Realty Trust | -18.26% | -3.61% | -1.59% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
29.1% of BRT Apartments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 40.2% of BRT Apartments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BRT Apartments beats Peakstone Realty Trust on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BRT Apartments
BRT is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates and, to a lesser extent, holds interests in joint ventures that own multi-family properties. As of December 31, 2023, BRT owns or has interests in 28 multi-family properties with 7,707 units in 11 states.
About Peakstone Realty Trust
Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE: PKST) is an internally managed, real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates a high-quality, newer-vintage portfolio of predominantly single-tenant industrial and office properties. These assets are generally leased to creditworthy tenants under long-term net lease agreements with contractual rent escalations. As of March 31, 2023, Peakstone's wholly-owned portfolio consists of 19 million square feet across 24 states in primarily high-growth, strategic coastal and sunbelt markets.
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