Head-To-Head Survey: American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) versus Brookfield (NYSE:BN)

Brookfield (NYSE:BN) and American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

61.6% of Brookfield shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.0% of American Strategic Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Brookfield shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of American Strategic Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Brookfield and American Strategic Investment, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brookfield	0	2	10	1	2.92
American Strategic Investment	1	0	0	0	1.00

Brookfield currently has a consensus price target of $54.20, indicating a potential upside of 39.02%. Given Brookfield’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Brookfield is more favorable than American Strategic Investment.

Risk & Volatility

Brookfield has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Strategic Investment has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Brookfield and American Strategic Investment’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brookfield	1.74%	3.90%	1.22%
American Strategic Investment	-40.92%	-97.07%	-13.64%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Brookfield and American Strategic Investment”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield	$75.10 billion	1.27	$1.31 billion	$0.49	79.57
American Strategic Investment	$61.57 million	0.35	-$140.59 million	($8.78)	-0.93

Brookfield has higher revenue and earnings than American Strategic Investment. American Strategic Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Brookfield beats American Strategic Investment on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brookfield

Brookfield Corporation is an alternative asset manager and REIT/Real Estate Investment Manager firm focuses on real estate, renewable power, infrastructure and venture capital and private equity assets. It manages a range of public and private investment products and services for institutional and retail clients. It typically makes investments in sizeable, premier assets across geographies and asset classes. It invests both its own capital as well as capital from other investors. Within private equity and venture capital, it focuses on acquisition, early ventures, control buyouts and financially distressed, buyouts and corporate carve-outs, recapitalizations, convertible, senior and mezzanine financings, operational and capital structure restructuring, strategic re-direction, turnaround, and under-performing midmarket companies. It invests in both public debt and equity markets. It invests in private equity sectors with focus on Business Services include infrastructure, healthcare, road fuel distribution and marketing, construction and real estate; Industrials include manufacturers of automotive batteries, graphite electrodes, returnable plastic packaging, and sanitation management and development; and Residential/ infrastructure services. It targets companies which likely possess underlying real assets, primarily in sectors such as industrial products, building materials, metals, mining, homebuilding, oil and gas, paper and packaging, manufacturing and forest product sectors. It invests globally with focus on North America including Brazil, the United States, Canada; Europe; and Australia; and Asia-Pacific. The firm considers equity investments in the range of $2 million to $500 million. It has a four-year investment period and a 10-year term with two one-year extensions. The firm prefers to take minority stake and majority stake. Brookfield Corporation was founded in 1997 and based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices across Northern America; South America; Europe; Middle East and Asia.

About American Strategic Investment

American Strategic Investment Co. (NYSE: NYC) owns a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate located within the five boroughs of New York City.