ROIC vs. SKT, AKR, MAC, ALX, BFS, RPT, UBA, KRG, ADC, and PEB
Should you be buying Retail Opportunity Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Retail Opportunity Investments include Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Macerich (MAC), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), RPT Realty (RPT), Urstadt Biddle Properties (UBA), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments vs.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (NYSE:SKT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers received 73 more outperform votes than Retail Opportunity Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.64% of users gave Tanger Factory Outlet Centers an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Tanger Factory Outlet 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 4.6%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 146.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers pays out 114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
95.5% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.6% of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 4 more articles in the media than Tanger Factory Outlet Centers. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 3 mentions for Tanger Factory Outlet Centers. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Tanger Factory Outlet Centers' score of 0.40 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Retail Opportunity Investments presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.67%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.06%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Tanger Factory Outlet Centers.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a net margin of 18.44% compared to Retail Opportunity Investments' net margin of 16.58%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers' return on equity of 15.90% beat Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity.
Summary
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers beats Retail Opportunity Investments on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ROIC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Retail Opportunity Investments Competitors List
