Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (NASDAQ:WHLR – Get Free Report) and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:PECO – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Risk and Volatility
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc., as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.33 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
35.3% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | 5.13% | -20.00% | 0.82% |
| Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. | 9.91% | 2.64% | 1.35% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | $104.57 million | 0.02 | -$9.58 million | ($26,048.3594) | 0.00 |
| Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. | $661.39 million | 6.42 | $62.69 million | $0.55 | 61.51 |
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips Edison & Company, Inc., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. beats Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust
Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-managed commercial real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on owning and operating income-producing retail properties with a primary focus on grocery-anchored centers.
About Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.
Phillips Edison & Co., Inc. is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the ownership and operation of shopping centers. It also offers an investment management business providing property management and advisory services. Its portfolio consists of well-occupied, grocery-anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers having a mix of national, regional, and local retailers offering necessity-based goods and services. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Edison and Michael C. Phillips in 1991 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.
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