This is therefore a comparing of the institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation in Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG) and Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. (NYSE:TCI). The two are both REIT – Diversified companies that compete with one another.

Earnings & Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Seritage Growth Properties	204.31M	11.92	78.38M	-1.90	0.00
Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.	127.13M	2.18	20.97M	2.41	13.72

Table 1 shows the gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation for Seritage Growth Properties and Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 has Seritage Growth Properties and Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Seritage Growth Properties	-38.36%	-3.6%	-1.2%
Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.	16.49%	10.6%	1.5%

Volatility and Risk

A 1.69 beta means Seritage Growth Properties’s volatility is 69.00% more than Standard & Poor’s 500’s volatility. Competitively, Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.’s beta is 0.26 which is 74.00% less volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500.

Dividends

Seritage Growth Properties pays out its dividends annually at $1 per share and 2.25% dividend yield. Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. does not offer a dividend.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Seritage Growth Properties and Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 0% and 2.8% respectively. Insiders held roughly 55.62% of Seritage Growth Properties’s shares. Comparatively, Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. has 87.93% of it’s share held by insiders.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Seritage Growth Properties	-0.29%	10.47%	15.62%	-12.77%	21%	37.4%
Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.	0.7%	6.42%	-2.97%	11.98%	10.7%	16.49%

For the past year Seritage Growth Properties’s stock price has bigger growth than Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc.

Summary

On 7 of the 11 factors Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. beats Seritage Growth Properties.

Seritage Growth Properties is a real estate investment trust. It invests in the real estate markets of United States. The firm is engaged in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of diversified retail real estate. It was formed on June 3, 2015 and is based in New York City.

Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc., a Dallas-based real estate investment company, holds a diverse portfolio of equity real estate located across the U.S., including apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, and developed and undeveloped land. The Company invests in real estate through direct ownership, leases and partnerships and invests in mortgage loans on real estate. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.transconrealty-invest.com.