NSA vs. NLY, REXR, CUBE, BXP, FRT, OHI, EGP, NNN, COLD, and AGNC
Should you be buying National Storage Affiliates Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Storage Affiliates Trust include Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), EastGroup Properties (EGP), NNN REIT (NNN), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), and AGNC Investment (AGNC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE:NSA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Annaly Capital Management pays out -268.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays out 117.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Storage Affiliates Trust has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Annaly Capital Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Storage Affiliates Trust has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Storage Affiliates Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Annaly Capital Management had 9 more articles in the media than National Storage Affiliates Trust. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Annaly Capital Management and 6 mentions for National Storage Affiliates Trust. Annaly Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat National Storage Affiliates Trust's score of 0.93 indicating that National Storage Affiliates Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Annaly Capital Management received 200 more outperform votes than National Storage Affiliates Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.34% of users gave National Storage Affiliates Trust an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has a net margin of 22.07% compared to National Storage Affiliates Trust's net margin of -8.38%. National Storage Affiliates Trust's return on equity of 15.13% beat Annaly Capital Management's return on equity.
51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Annaly Capital Management presently has a consensus price target of $21.07, indicating a potential upside of 6.80%. National Storage Affiliates Trust has a consensus price target of $36.44, indicating a potential downside of 6.17%. Given National Storage Affiliates Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Annaly Capital Management is more favorable than National Storage Affiliates Trust.
Summary
National Storage Affiliates Trust beats Annaly Capital Management on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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