Analyzing American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) & Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for American Strategic Investment and Equinix, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Strategic Investment	0	1	0	0	2.00
Equinix	0	6	7	1	2.64

American Strategic Investment currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.36%. Equinix has a consensus target price of $862.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.31%. Given American Strategic Investment’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe American Strategic Investment is more favorable than Equinix.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

48.0% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Equinix shares are owned 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares American Strategic Investment and Equinix’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Strategic Investment	$62.71 million	0.23	-$105.92 million	($46.91)	-0.13
Equinix	$8.19 billion	8.64	$969.18 million	$10.31	72.55

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Strategic Investment	-168.91%	-36.93%	-14.00%
Equinix	11.84%	8.01%	3.05%

Risk and Volatility

American Strategic Investment has a beta of -0.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinix has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Equinix beats American Strategic Investment on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Equinix

Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company . Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.