SPG vs. O, KIM, FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, MAC, SKT, AKR, and ROIC
Should you be buying Simon Property Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simon Property Group include Realty Income (O), Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), and Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Realty Income (NYSE:O) and Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Realty Income presently has a consensus price target of $61.35, suggesting a potential upside of 14.39%. Simon Property Group has a consensus price target of $145.33, suggesting a potential downside of 4.27%. Given Simon Property Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Simon Property Group.
Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Simon Property Group pays an annual dividend of $7.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Realty Income pays out 291.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Simon Property Group pays out 99.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Realty Income has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Simon Property Group has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Realty Income has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simon Property Group has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Simon Property Group received 352 more outperform votes than Realty Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.32% of users gave Simon Property Group an outperform vote while only 64.63% of users gave Realty Income an outperform vote.
Simon Property Group has a net margin of 46.49% compared to Simon Property Group's net margin of 17.74%. Realty Income's return on equity of 78.50% beat Simon Property Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Realty Income had 21 more articles in the media than Simon Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Realty Income and 11 mentions for Simon Property Group. Realty Income's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Simon Property Group's score of 0.65 indicating that Simon Property Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Simon Property Group has higher revenue and earnings than Realty Income. Simon Property Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Realty Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Simon Property Group beats Realty Income on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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