InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) (NYSE:REIT) is a company in the REIT – Industrial industry and that’s how we compare it to its peers. The comparing will be based on the dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) has 87.2% of its shares owned by institutional investors versus an average of 67.31% institutional ownership for its competitors. On other hand InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) has 0.1% of its shares owned by company insiders versus an average of 6.38% insiders ownership for its peers.

Profitability

On first table we have InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) and its peers’ return on equity, return on assets and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)	30.78%	4.10%	1.40%
Industry Average	10.16%	29.29%	3.44%

Earnings & Valuation

In next table we are comparing InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) and its peers’ gross revenue, net income and valuation.

	Net Income	Gross Revenue	Price/Earnings Ratio
InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)	61.67M	200.35M	35.97
Industry Average	59.64M	586.89M	112.34

InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) has lower revenue and P/E Ratio than its competitors. With currently lower P/E ratio InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) is more affordable than its competitors.

Analyst Ratings

Table 3 provides summary of current ratings for InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) and its peers.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)	0	1	0	2.00
Industry Average	3.00	1.70	2.27	2.58

$21 is the average price target of InfraREIT Inc. (REIT), with a potential downside of -0.47%. The potential upside of the competitors is 14.15%. InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s strong average rating and high possible upside, looks like is making analysts believe that the business is more favorable than its peers.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) and its peers.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)	0.66%	1.42%	-5.23%	2.29%	16.43%	1.81%
Industry Average	1.93%	3.81%	7.81%	12.62%	33.31%	14.70%

For the past year InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s stock price has smaller growth than the average for its peers.

Liquidity

InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) has a Current Ratio of 0.3 and a Quick Ratio of 0.3. Competitively, InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s competitors Current Ratio is 0.33 and has 0.33 Quick Ratio. InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s rivals have better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than InfraREIT Inc. (REIT).

Volatility and Risk

A beta of 0.36 shows that InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) is 64.00% less volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s peers’ beta is 0.66 which is 33.61% less volatile than S&P 500.

Dividends

$1 per share with a dividend yield of 4.74% is the annual dividend that InfraREIT Inc. (REIT) pays. On the other side, 5.10% is the dividend yield of InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s peers.

Summary

InfraREIT Inc. (REIT)’s rivals beat on 8 of the 7 factors InfraREIT Inc. (REIT).

InfraREIT, Inc. is a real estate investment trust externally managed by Hunt Utility Services. The firm invests in the real estate markets of the United States. It owns rate regulated electricity delivery infrastructure assets in Texas. InfraREIT, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Dallas, Texas.