Head to Head Contrast: Broad Street Realty (OTCMKTS:BRST) versus Douglas Elliman (NYSE:DOUG)

Broad Street Realty (OTCMKTS:BRST) and Douglas Elliman (NYSE:DOUG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

Broad Street Realty has a beta of 5.98, meaning that its stock price is 498% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Douglas Elliman has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

59.6% of Douglas Elliman shares are held by institutional investors. 26.6% of Broad Street Realty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Douglas Elliman shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Broad Street Realty and Douglas Elliman”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Broad Street Realty	$41.35 million	0.00	-$10.55 million	$0.18	0.03
Douglas Elliman	$1.03 billion	0.16	$15.22 million	($0.07)	-26.36

Douglas Elliman has higher revenue and earnings than Broad Street Realty. Douglas Elliman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broad Street Realty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Broad Street Realty and Douglas Elliman’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Broad Street Realty	N/A	N/A	N/A
Douglas Elliman	0.50%	-20.59%	-6.72%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Broad Street Realty and Douglas Elliman, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Broad Street Realty	0	0	0	0	0.00
Douglas Elliman	1	0	0	0	1.00

About Broad Street Realty

Broad Street Realty, Inc. owns, operates, develops, and redevelops grocery-anchored shopping centers, street retail-based properties, and mixed-use assets in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Colorado. The company provides commercial real estate brokerage services for owned and third-party offices, and industrial and retail operators and tenants, as well as leases its properties. It also offers oversight of day-to-day operations, coordination, tenant improvements, and building services; and real estate management and engineering services to property owners, as well as provides tenant representation, property and asset management, construction-related services, real estate sales and acquisition, and other financing services. Broad Street Realty, Inc. is based in Reston, Virginia.

About Douglas Elliman

Douglas Elliman Inc. owns Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, operating as a residential brokerage company in the United States with operations in New York, Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In addition, Douglas Elliman sources, uses and invests in early-stage, disruptive property technology (“PropTech”) solutions and companies and provides other real estate services, including development marketing, property management and settlement and escrow services in select markets.