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Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc is a reit—residential business based in the US. Preferred Apartment Communities shares (APTS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Preferred Apartment Communities employs 502 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$494.5 million.

How to buy shares in Preferred Apartment Communities

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3. Search for Preferred Apartment Communities. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: APTS. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Preferred Apartment Communities reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$7.86, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Preferred Apartment Communities, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Preferred Apartment Communities. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Preferred Apartment Communities's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Preferred Apartment Communities's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$7.86, which is 36.46% down on its pre-crash value of USD$12.37 and 28.85% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$6.1.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Preferred Apartment Communities shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$579.45 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$661.03.

Preferred Apartment Communities share price

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Preferred Apartment Communities shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-19.

Latest market close	USD$7.86
52-week range	USD$5.01 - USD$14.69
50-day moving average	USD$5.9397
200-day moving average	USD$6.9156
Wall St. target price	USD$7.2
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	USD$0.7 (12.92%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.632

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Is it a good time to buy Preferred Apartment Communities stock?

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Preferred Apartment Communities price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $7.86 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-23)	-6.32%
1 month (2020-10-30)	45.56%
3 months (2020-08-28)	17.49%
6 months (2020-05-29)	12.45%

1 year (2019-11-29)	-42.92%
2 years (2018-11-30)	-47.46%
3 years (2017-11-30)	-63.03%
5 years (2015-11-30)	-32.99%

Is Preferred Apartment Communities under- or over-valued?

Valuing Preferred Apartment Communities stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Preferred Apartment Communities's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Preferred Apartment Communities's EBITDA

Preferred Apartment Communities's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$110 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Preferred Apartment Communities's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Preferred Apartment Communities financials

Revenue TTM	USD$494.5 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$295 million
Return on assets TTM	-0.99%
Return on equity TTM	-11.39%
Profit margin	-39.52%
Book value	$35.108
Market capitalisation	USD$267.4 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Preferred Apartment Communities shares

There are currently 1.6 million Preferred Apartment Communities shares held short by investors – that's known as Preferred Apartment Communities's "short interest". This figure is 36.9% up from 1.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Preferred Apartment Communities shares can be evaluated.

Preferred Apartment Communities's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Preferred Apartment Communities's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Preferred Apartment Communities shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Preferred Apartment Communities shares traded daily (recently around 612363.878327). Preferred Apartment Communities's SIR currently stands at 2.63. In other words for every 100,000 Preferred Apartment Communities shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2630 shares are currently held short.

However Preferred Apartment Communities's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Preferred Apartment Communities shares, or, against the total number of tradable Preferred Apartment Communities shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Preferred Apartment Communities's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Preferred Apartment Communities shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0326% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Preferred Apartment Communities shares, roughly 33 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Preferred Apartment Communities.

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Preferred Apartment Communities share dividends

We're not expecting Preferred Apartment Communities to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Preferred Apartment Communities share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Preferred Apartment Communities's shares have ranged in value from as little as $5.01 up to $14.69. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Preferred Apartment Communities's is 0.7612. This would suggest that Preferred Apartment Communities's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Preferred Apartment Communities overview

Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: APTS) is a real estate investment trust engaged primarily in the ownership and operation of Class A multifamily properties, with select investments in grocery anchored shopping centers, Class A office buildings, and student housing properties. Preferred Apartment Communities' investment objective is to generate attractive, stable returns for stockholders by investing in income-producing properties and acquiring or originating real estate loans for multifamily properties. As of June 30, 2020, the Company owned or was invested in 125 properties in 15 states, predominantly in the Southeast region of the United States.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Preferred Apartment Communities is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.131% of Preferred Apartment Communities shares are held by insiders and 57.786% by institutions.

• How many people work for Preferred Apartment Communities?

  Latest data suggests 502 work at Preferred Apartment Communities.

• When does the fiscal year end for Preferred Apartment Communities?

  Preferred Apartment Communities's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Preferred Apartment Communities based?

  Preferred Apartment Communities's address is: 3284 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30327

• What is Preferred Apartment Communities's ISIN number?

  Preferred Apartment Communities's international securities identification number is: US74039L1035

• What is Preferred Apartment Communities's CUSIP number?

  Preferred Apartment Communities's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 74039L103