Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA – Get Free Report) and JBG SMITH Properties (NYSE:JBGS – Get Free Report) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Mid-America Apartment Communities and JBG SMITH Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Mid-America Apartment Communities | 25.73% | 8.74% | 4.85% |
JBG SMITH Properties | -13.24% | -3.20% | -1.40% |
Volatility and Risk
Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JBG SMITH Properties has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dividends
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Mid-America Apartment Communities and JBG SMITH Properties, as provided by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Mid-America Apartment Communities | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2.07 |
JBG SMITH Properties | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Mid-America Apartment Communities currently has a consensus target price of $143.18, indicating a potential upside of 12.30%. JBG SMITH Properties has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.29%. Given Mid-America Apartment Communities’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Mid-America Apartment Communities is more favorable than JBG SMITH Properties.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Mid-America Apartment Communities and JBG SMITH Properties’ revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Mid-America Apartment Communities | $2.15 billion | 6.93 | $552.81 million | $4.71 | 27.07 |
JBG SMITH Properties | $604.20 million | 2.30 | -$79.98 million | ($0.84) | -18.04 |
Mid-America Apartment Communities has higher revenue and earnings than JBG SMITH Properties. JBG SMITH Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mid-America Apartment Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of JBG SMITH Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of JBG SMITH Properties 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
Mid-America Apartment Communities beats JBG SMITH Properties on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Mid-America Apartment Communities
MAA, an S&P 500 company, is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on delivering full-cycle and superior investment performance for shareholders through the ownership, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of quality apartment communities primarily in the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2023, MAA had ownership interest in 102,662 apartment units, including communities currently in development, across 16 states and the District of Columbia.
About JBG SMITH Properties
JBG SMITH owns, operates, invests in, and develops mixed-use properties in high growth and high barrier-to-entry submarkets in and around Washington, DC, most notably National Landing. Through an intense focus on placemaking, JBG SMITH cultivates vibrant, amenity-rich, walkable neighborhoods throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Approximately 75.0% of JBG SMITH's holdings are in the National Landing submarket in Northern Virginia, which is anchored by four key demand drivers: Amazon's new headquarters; Virginia Tech's under-construction $1 billion Innovation Campus; the submarket's proximity to the Pentagon; and JBG SMITH's deployment of 5G digital infrastructure. JBG SMITH's dynamic portfolio currently comprises 14.2 million square feet of high-growth office, multifamily, and retail assets at share, 99% of which are Metro-served. It also maintains a development pipeline encompassing 8.8 million square feet of mixed-use, primarily multifamily, development opportunities. JBG SMITH is committed to the operation and development of green, smart, and healthy buildings and plans to maintain carbon neutral operations annually.
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