CDP vs. BNL, NHI, MPW, OUT, HIW, NSA, SITC, HASI, LXP, and ABR
Should you be buying COPT Defense Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of COPT Defense Properties include Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), Highwoods Properties (HIW), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), SITE Centers (SITC), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), and Arbor Realty Trust (ABR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Broadstone Net Lease (NYSE:BNL) and COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Broadstone Net Lease received 15 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 35.00% of users gave Broadstone Net Lease an outperform vote.
Broadstone Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. COPT Defense Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Broadstone Net Lease pays out 118.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. COPT Defense Properties pays out -109.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Broadstone Net Lease has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Broadstone Net Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Broadstone Net Lease currently has a consensus target price of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 10.05%. COPT Defense Properties has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.67%. Given COPT Defense Properties' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Broadstone Net Lease is more favorable than COPT Defense Properties.
Broadstone Net Lease has a net margin of 42.23% compared to Broadstone Net Lease's net margin of -16.83%. COPT Defense Properties' return on equity of 5.60% beat Broadstone Net Lease's return on equity.
In the previous week, Broadstone Net Lease had 7 more articles in the media than COPT Defense Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Broadstone Net Lease and 2 mentions for COPT Defense Properties. Broadstone Net Lease's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat COPT Defense Properties' score of 0.94 indicating that COPT Defense Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Broadstone Net Lease has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, COPT Defense Properties has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Broadstone Net Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than COPT Defense Properties. COPT Defense Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadstone Net Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.1% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of COPT Defense Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Broadstone Net Lease beats COPT Defense Properties on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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