CUZ vs. LXP, VNO, AAT, IRT, APLE, SLG, HHH, SBRA, GRP.U, and EPR
Should you be buying Cousins Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cousins Properties include LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), American Assets Trust (AAT), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), SL Green Realty (SLG), Howard Hughes (HHH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), and EPR Properties (EPR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) and Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. LXP Industrial Trust pays out 650.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LXP Industrial Trust has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. LXP Industrial Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cousins Properties has higher revenue and earnings than LXP Industrial Trust. Cousins Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LXP Industrial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LXP Industrial Trust and LXP Industrial Trust both had 14 articles in the media. Cousins Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat LXP Industrial Trust's score of 0.67 indicating that LXP Industrial Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LXP Industrial Trust presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.00%. Cousins Properties has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.92%. Given Cousins Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe LXP Industrial Trust is more favorable than Cousins Properties.
93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LXP Industrial Trust and Cousins Properties both received 269 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 56.75% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Cousins Properties' net margin of 8.92%. LXP Industrial Trust's return on equity of 1.62% beat Cousins Properties' return on equity.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats LXP Industrial Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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