CDP vs. NLY, REXR, CUBE, BXP, FRT, EGP, OHI, NNN, COLD, and AGNC
Should you be buying COPT Defense Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of COPT Defense Properties include Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), EastGroup Properties (EGP), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), NNN REIT (NNN), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), and AGNC Investment (AGNC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) and Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
In the previous week, Annaly Capital Management had 12 more articles in the media than COPT Defense Properties. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Annaly Capital Management and 2 mentions for COPT Defense Properties. COPT Defense Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Annaly Capital Management's score of 0.93 indicating that COPT Defense Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Annaly Capital Management has a net margin of -8.38% compared to COPT Defense Properties' net margin of -16.83%. Annaly Capital Management's return on equity of 15.13% beat COPT Defense Properties' return on equity.
COPT Defense Properties has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
COPT Defense Properties presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.43%. Annaly Capital Management has a consensus price target of $21.07, suggesting a potential upside of 6.74%. Given COPT Defense Properties' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe COPT Defense Properties is more favorable than Annaly Capital Management.
Annaly Capital Management received 465 more outperform votes than COPT Defense Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave COPT Defense Properties an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
COPT Defense Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. COPT Defense Properties pays out -109.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Annaly Capital Management pays out -268.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Annaly Capital Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of COPT Defense Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
COPT Defense Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Annaly Capital Management. COPT Defense Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Annaly Capital Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Annaly Capital Management beats COPT Defense Properties on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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