VNO vs. CUZ, LXP, AAT, WSR, GOOD, OLP, GYRO, ESS, MAA, and SUI
Should you be buying Vornado Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vornado Realty Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), and Sun Communities (SUI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) and Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Vornado Realty Trust received 250 more outperform votes than Cousins Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.56% of users gave Vornado Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.39% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vornado Realty Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Cousins Properties. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Vornado Realty Trust and 4 mentions for Cousins Properties. Vornado Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Cousins Properties' score of 0.89 indicating that Cousins Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vornado Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Cousins Properties. Cousins Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vornado Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cousins Properties presently has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.80%. Vornado Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $24.45, suggesting a potential upside of 0.97%. Given Vornado Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cousins Properties is more favorable than Vornado Realty Trust.
Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Vornado Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Cousins Properties pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vornado Realty Trust pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Cousins Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Cousins Properties' net margin of 5.07%. Cousins Properties' return on equity of 3.02% beat Vornado Realty Trust's return on equity.
Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vornado Realty Trust has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats Vornado Realty Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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