Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) & Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) Head to Head Comparison

Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) and Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Modiv Industrial and Mid-America Apartment Communities, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Modiv Industrial	0	1	0	1	3.00
Mid-America Apartment Communities	2	11	8	0	2.29

Modiv Industrial currently has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.87%. Mid-America Apartment Communities has a consensus target price of $154.89, suggesting a potential upside of 14.42%. Given Modiv Industrial’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Modiv Industrial is more favorable than Mid-America Apartment Communities.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Modiv Industrial and Mid-America Apartment Communities”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Modiv Industrial	$46.76 million	3.22	$6.02 million	($0.26)	-56.35
Mid-America Apartment Communities	$2.20 billion	7.19	$527.54 million	$4.72	28.68

Mid-America Apartment Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Modiv Industrial. Modiv Industrial 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.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

8.2% of Modiv Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Modiv Industrial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Modiv Industrial has a beta of -0.32, indicating that its stock price is 132% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Modiv Industrial and Mid-America Apartment Communities’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Modiv Industrial	3.00%	0.67%	0.28%
Mid-America Apartment Communities	25.23%	9.10%	4.70%

Dividends

Modiv Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Modiv Industrial pays out -450.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays out 128.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Modiv Industrial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Mid-America Apartment Communities has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Modiv Industrial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Mid-America Apartment Communities beats Modiv Industrial on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Modiv Industrial

Modiv Industrial, Inc. is an internally managed REIT that is focused on single-tenant net-lease industrial manufacturing real estate. The Company actively acquires critical industrial manufacturing properties with long-term leases to tenants that fuel the national economy and strengthen the nation's supply chains.

About Mid-America Apartment Communities

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the operation, acquisition, and development of apartment communities. It operates through the Same Store and Non-Same Store segments. The Same Store Communities segment represents those apartment communities that have been owned and stabilized for at least 12 months as of the first day of the calendar year. The Non-Same Store segment includes recent acquisitions, communities in development or lease-up. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Germantown, TN.