VICI vs. PLD, AMT, EQIX, WELL, SPG, PSA, O, CCI, DLR, and EXR
Should you be buying VICI Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VICI Properties include Prologis (PLD), American Tower (AMT), Equinix (EQIX), Welltower (WELL), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), Realty Income (O), Crown Castle (CCI), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), and Extra Space Storage (EXR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Prologis (NYSE:PLD) and VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 70.13% compared to VICI Properties' net margin of 38.73%. Prologis' return on equity of 10.33% beat VICI Properties' return on equity.
Prologis currently has a consensus price target of $129.76, indicating a potential upside of 17.75%. VICI Properties has a consensus price target of $34.18, indicating a potential upside of 20.61%. Given Prologis' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Prologis.
Prologis pays an annual dividend of $3.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Prologis pays out 112.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VICI Properties pays out 65.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prologis has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and VICI Properties has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Prologis has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VICI Properties has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, VICI Properties had 4 more articles in the media than Prologis. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for VICI Properties and 13 mentions for Prologis. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Prologis' score of 0.76 indicating that Prologis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prologis has higher revenue and earnings than VICI Properties. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prologis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.5% of Prologis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of VICI Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Prologis shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are owned by company 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.
Prologis received 641 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.23% of users gave Prologis an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Prologis beats VICI Properties on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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