MAC vs. KIM, FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, SKT, AKR, ROIC, GTY, and ALX
Should you be buying Macerich stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macerich include Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), and Alexander's (ALX). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) and Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Macerich has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kimco Realty has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.4% of Macerich shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Kimco Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Macerich shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Kimco Realty shares are held by company 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.
Kimco Realty received 197 more outperform votes than Macerich when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.85% of users gave Kimco Realty an outperform vote while only 51.74% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Kimco Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kimco Realty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kimco Realty had 4 more articles in the media than Macerich. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Kimco Realty and 5 mentions for Macerich. Macerich's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Kimco Realty's score of 1.19 indicating that Macerich is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Kimco Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Macerich pays out -43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kimco Realty pays out 181.1% 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 presently has a consensus target price of $14.71, suggesting a potential downside of 1.38%. Kimco Realty has a consensus target price of $21.52, suggesting a potential upside of 14.54%. Given Kimco Realty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kimco Realty is more favorable than Macerich.
Kimco Realty has a net margin of 19.17% compared to Macerich's net margin of -38.96%. Kimco Realty's return on equity of 3.54% beat Macerich's return on equity.
Summary
Kimco Realty beats Macerich on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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