Financial Analysis: Aedifica NV/SA (OTCMKTS:AEDFF) & Welltower (NYSE:WELL)

Welltower (NYSE:WELL) and Aedifica NV/SA (OTCMKTS:AEDFF) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Welltower and Aedifica NV/SA, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Welltower	0	4	7	2	2.85
Aedifica NV/SA	0	0	0	0	N/A

Welltower currently has a consensus price target of $115.38, indicating a potential downside of 11.49%. Given Welltower’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Welltower is more favorable than Aedifica NV/SA.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Welltower and Aedifica NV/SA”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Welltower	$6.97 billion	11.18	$340.09 million	$0.81	160.90
Aedifica NV/SA	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Welltower has higher revenue and earnings than Aedifica NV/SA.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

94.8% of Welltower shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Welltower shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Welltower and Aedifica NV/SA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Welltower	8.36%	2.21%	1.35%
Aedifica NV/SA	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Welltower beats Aedifica NV/SA on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Welltower

Welltower Inc. (NYSE:WELL), a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) and S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. Welltower invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people’s wellness and overall health care experience. Welltower owns interests in properties concentrated in major, high-growth markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, consisting of seniors housing and post-acute communities and outpatient medical properties.

About Aedifica NV/SA

Aedifica is a Regulated Real Estate Company under Belgian law specialised in European healthcare real estate, particularly in elderly care. Aedifica has developed a portfolio of approx. 620 sites in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Ireland and Spain, worth more than 5.8 billion. Aedifica is listed on Euronext Brussels (2006) and Euronext Amsterdam (2019) and is identified by the following ticker symbols: AED; AED:BB (Bloomberg); AOO.BR (Reuters). Since 2020, Aedifica has been part of the BEL 20, Euronext Brussels' leading share index. Moreover, since 2023, Aedifica has been part of the BEL ESG, the index tracking companies that perform best on ESG criteria. Aedifica is also included in the EPRA, Stoxx Europe 600 and GPR indices. Aedifica's market capitalisation was approx. 2.6 billion as at 20 February 2024.