REG vs. VER, CONE, LAMR, STOR, AMH, CCI, EXR, VICI, AVB, and EQR
Should you be buying Regency Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Regency Centers include VEREIT (VER), CyrusOne (CONE), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), STORE Capital (STOR), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Crown Castle (CCI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), VICI Properties (VICI), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), and Equity Residential (EQR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG) and VEREIT (NYSE:VER) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Regency Centers has a net margin of 27.31% compared to VEREIT's net margin of 22.20%. Regency Centers' return on equity of 5.52% beat VEREIT's return on equity.
Regency Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. VEREIT pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Regency Centers pays out 130.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VEREIT pays out 59.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Regency Centers has higher revenue and earnings than VEREIT. VEREIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regency Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.1% of Regency Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of VEREIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Regency Centers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of VEREIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Regency Centers had 6 more articles in the media than VEREIT. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Regency Centers and 1 mentions for VEREIT. Regency Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat VEREIT's score of 0.09 indicating that Regency Centers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
VEREIT received 436 more outperform votes than Regency Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.78% of users gave VEREIT an outperform vote while only 38.16% of users gave Regency Centers an outperform vote.
Regency Centers currently has a consensus target price of $70.09, indicating a potential upside of 17.98%. Given Regency Centers' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Regency Centers is more favorable than VEREIT.
Regency Centers has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VEREIT has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Regency Centers beats VEREIT on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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