SITC vs. LAMR, ELS, REG, CPT, REXR, NLY, BXP, CUBE, FRT, and OHI
Should you be buying SITE Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SITE Centers include Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Regency Centers (REG), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Boston Properties (BXP), CubeSmart (CUBE), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) and SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
SITE Centers has a net margin of 43.36% compared to SITE Centers' net margin of 23.29%. SITE Centers' return on equity of 41.86% beat Lamar Advertising's return on equity.
Lamar Advertising presently has a consensus target price of $109.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.29%. SITE Centers has a consensus target price of $14.38, suggesting a potential downside of 1.88%. Given Lamar Advertising's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SITE Centers is more favorable than Lamar Advertising.
Lamar Advertising received 364 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.14% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SITE Centers has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamar Advertising has higher revenue and earnings than SITE Centers. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamar Advertising, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lamar Advertising and Lamar Advertising both had 5 articles in the media. SITE Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Lamar Advertising's score of 0.87 indicating that Lamar Advertising is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of SITE Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamar Advertising has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Lamar Advertising is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats SITE Centers on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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