Since National Retail Properties Inc. (NYSE:NNN) and Power REIT (NYSEAMERICAN:PW) are part of the REIT – Diversified industry, they are influenced by contrast. The influences particularly affect the dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership of both companies.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
National Retail Properties Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	1.64	31.79
Power REIT	1.97M	5.60	N/A	0.31	19.39

We can see in table 1 the earnings per share, gross revenue and valuation of National Retail Properties Inc. and Power REIT. Currently more expensive of the two stocks is the company with a higher P/E ratio. National Retail Properties Inc.’s presently higher P/E ratio means it is more expensive than Power REIT.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us National Retail Properties Inc. and Power REIT’s return on equity, return on assets and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
National Retail Properties Inc.	0.00%	7.6%	3.7%
Power REIT	0.00%	7%	2.6%

Volatility & Risk

National Retail Properties Inc. has a 0.25 beta, while its volatility is 75.00% which is less volatile than S&P 500. Power REIT’s -0.03 beta is the reason why it is 103.00% less volatile than S&P 500.

Dividends

National Retail Properties Inc. dividend pay is $1.95 per share with 3.64% dividend yield annually. No dividend is paid out for Power REIT.

Analyst Recommendations

The table given features the ratings and recommendations for National Retail Properties Inc. and Power REIT.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
National Retail Properties Inc.	0	2	1	2.33
Power REIT	0	0	0	0.00

The upside potential is 2.71% for National Retail Properties Inc. with consensus target price of $55.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Roughly 95.2% of National Retail Properties Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 14.9% of Power REIT are owned by institutional investors. Insiders held 0.8% of National Retail Properties Inc. shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 28.2% of Power REIT’s shares.

Performance

In this table we show 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)
National Retail Properties Inc.	-0.72%	-0.97%	5.48%	13.33%	38.17%	7.61%
Power REIT	6.47%	16.47%	2.89%	0.98%	-1.8%	8.37%

For the past year National Retail Properties Inc. was less bullish than Power REIT.

Summary

National Retail Properties Inc. beats Power REIT on 7 of the 11 factors.