How AvalonBay Communities, Inc. stacks up

VMRK · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

70/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #63 of 183 · scores higher than 65% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

15 peers with a profitability score of 70–79, including VMRK · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 70?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets, which is stronger than most Real Estate peers.

Return on invested capital is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 30.2% vs peer median 26.8%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 85% of peers. Return on assets: 4.3% vs peer median 2.1%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = VMRK, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	VMRK	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	Not reported	3.6%	—	—	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	30.2%	23.6%	62%		33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	4.3%	1.9%	77%		33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	8.5%	5.5%	66%		Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	62.3%	66.3%	44%		Context only

A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around VMRK

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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60	Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.EPRT · US-listed	5.9B USD	74	74
61	The RMR Group Inc.RMR · US-listed	284M USD	72	57
61	W. P. Carey Inc.WPC · US-listed	14.7B USD	72	61
63	RE/MAX Holdings IncRMAX · US-listed	681M USD	70	52
63	AvalonBay Communities, Inc.VMRK · US-listed	48.0B USD	70	44
65	Global Net Lease, Inc.GNL · US-listed	1.6B USD	68	65
65	Gladstone Commercial CorporationGOOD · US-listed	563M USD	68	45
67	Universal Health Realty Income TrustUHT · US-listed	530M USD	67	62
68	COPT Defense PropertiesCDP · US-listed	3.8B USD	66	55

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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