BFS vs. ROIC, AKR, NXRT, ARR, BRSP, PLYM, BDN, CIM, CSR, and PGRE
Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Chimera Investment (CIM), Centerspace (CSR), and Paramount Group (PGRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Saul Centers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Saul Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Retail Opportunity Investments 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. 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. Saul Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Retail Opportunity Investments presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 17.16%. Saul Centers has a consensus target price of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.34%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Retail Opportunity Investments.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Saul Centers' net margin of 11.21%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 16.20% beat Saul Centers' return on equity.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Saul Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Saul Centers had 7 more articles in the media than Retail Opportunity Investments. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Saul Centers and 0 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Saul Centers' score of 0.00 indicating that Saul Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 72 more outperform votes than Saul Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 53.81% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote.
Summary
Saul Centers beats Retail Opportunity Investments on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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