LXP vs. CUZ, AAT, VNO, NHI, OUT, CDP, HIW, BNL, HASI, and MPW
Should you be buying LXP Industrial Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LXP Industrial Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), American Assets Trust (AAT), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), National Health Investors (NHI), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), Highwoods Properties (HIW), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), and Medical Properties Trust (MPW). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) and LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
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.
94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cousins Properties currently has a consensus target price of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.53%. LXP Industrial Trust has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.72%. Given Cousins Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LXP Industrial Trust is more favorable than Cousins Properties.
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.
Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. 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 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. LXP Industrial Trust has increased 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.
In the previous week, Cousins Properties had 13 more articles in the media than LXP Industrial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Cousins Properties and 6 mentions for LXP Industrial Trust. Cousins Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat LXP Industrial Trust's score of 0.38 indicating that LXP Industrial Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cousins Properties and LXP Industrial Trust both received 269 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 56.75% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats LXP Industrial Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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