ARE vs. DLR, SBAC, IRM, EQR, VTR, ESS, AVB, EXR, HST, and DOC
Should you be buying Alexandria Real Estate Equities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexandria Real Estate Equities include Digital Realty Trust (DLR), SBA Communications (SBAC), Iron Mountain (IRM), Equity Residential (EQR), Ventas (VTR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Host Hotels & Resorts (HST), and Healthpeak Properties (DOC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Digital Realty Trust received 324 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.54% of users gave Digital Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
Digital Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $143.33, suggesting a potential upside of 2.53%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a consensus price target of $136.75, suggesting a potential upside of 17.47%. Given Digital Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than Digital Realty Trust.
Digital Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Digital Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 24 more articles in the media than Digital Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 11 mentions for Digital Realty Trust. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Digital Realty Trust's score of 0.46 indicating that Digital Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Digital Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Digital Realty Trust pays out 164.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 474.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Digital Realty Trust has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
99.7% of Digital Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Digital Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Digital Realty Trust has a net margin of 17.32% compared to Digital Realty Trust's net margin of 6.65%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 5.33% beat Digital Realty Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Digital Realty Trust beats Alexandria Real Estate Equities on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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