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Saul Centers (BFS) Competitors

$36.35
-0.41 (-1.12%)
(As of 06/7/2024 08:51 PM ET)

BFS vs. MAC, SKT, AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, SPG, O, KIM, and FRT

Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), Alexander's (ALX), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Kimco Realty (KIM), and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.

Saul Centers vs.

Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and Macerich (NYSE:MAC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Macerich received 221 more outperform votes than Saul Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.91% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote while only 51.74% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Saul CentersOutperform Votes
255
53.91%
Underperform Votes
218
46.09%
MacerichOutperform Votes
476
51.74%
Underperform Votes
444
48.26%

50.0% of Saul Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Macerich shares are held by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Macerich shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Saul Centers presently has a consensus target price of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.67%. Macerich has a consensus target price of $14.71, suggesting a potential downside of 1.38%. Given Saul Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Macerich.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Saul Centers
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Macerich
4 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.57

Saul Centers has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Macerich's net margin of -38.96%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 16.20% beat Macerich's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Saul Centers20.25% 16.20% 2.68%
Macerich -38.96%-13.42%-4.51%

Saul Centers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Saul Centers$257.21M3.39$52.69M$1.7321.01
Macerich$884.07M3.64-$274.07M-$1.56-9.56

Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Saul Centers pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Macerich pays out -43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

In the previous week, Macerich had 4 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Macerich and 1 mentions for Saul Centers. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Macerich's score of 1.31 indicating that Saul Centers is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Saul Centers
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Macerich
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Saul Centers has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Macerich has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Saul Centers beats Macerich on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BFS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BFS vs. The Competition

MetricSaul CentersReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$871.75M$6.62B$9.91B$17.91B
Dividend Yield6.49%6.95%6.06%3.56%
P/E Ratio21.0137.1240.2225.05
Price / Sales3.396.2141.0514.20
Price / Cash8.4216.8714.6419.35
Price / Book2.722.272.334.99
Net Income$52.69M$151.15M$1.02B$975.94M
7 Day Performance-0.11%-0.30%-0.77%-1.87%
1 Month Performance-1.14%-0.70%-0.56%-1.65%
1 Year Performance-4.12%-2.82%9.49%9.19%

Saul Centers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MAC
Macerich
2.624 of 5 stars
$15.50
+2.0%
$14.71
-5.1%
+33.1%$3.28B$884.07M-9.94654Positive News
SKT
Tanger
4.0624 of 5 stars
$27.20
-0.9%
$29.57
+8.7%
+22.0%$2.97B$478.84M29.89364Positive News
AKR
Acadia Realty Trust
2.3669 of 5 stars
$17.31
-0.4%
$18.50
+6.9%
+18.1%$1.79B$338.69M216.31117Positive News
ROIC
Retail Opportunity Investments
2.6871 of 5 stars
$12.57
-0.5%
$14.38
+14.4%
-7.3%$1.61B$327.73M41.9071Positive News
GTY
Getty Realty
2.3084 of 5 stars
$27.40
-0.7%
$31.50
+15.0%
-21.8%$1.49B$185.85M23.4232Positive News
ALX
Alexander's
0.2105 of 5 stars
$211.08
-0.5%
$145.00
-31.3%
+15.4%$1.08B$224.96M10.0992
SPG
Simon Property Group
3.5258 of 5 stars
$153.45
+0.6%
$145.33
-5.3%
+37.1%$49.70B$5.66B19.553,000Ex-Dividend
Positive News
Gap Down
O
Realty Income
3.9292 of 5 stars
$54.03
-0.7%
$61.35
+13.5%
-12.5%$47.40B$4.08B50.03418
KIM
Kimco Realty
4.8673 of 5 stars
$19.30
+0.1%
$21.52
+11.5%
-3.1%$13.00B$1.78B36.41N/APositive News
FRT
Federal Realty Investment Trust
4.7947 of 5 stars
$101.77
+0.2%
$114.00
+12.0%
+5.0%$8.44B$1.15B36.22297Positive News

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This page (NYSE:BFS) was last updated on 6/10/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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