BFS vs. PECO, REG, AKR, ALEX, BRX, FRT, KIM, KRG, OLP, and UE
Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Regency Centers (REG), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Kimco Realty (KIM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), One Liberty Properties (OLP), and Urban Edge Properties (UE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Saul Centers vs. Its Competitors
Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:PECO) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has a consensus target price of $38.86, indicating a potential upside of 12.60%. Given Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. is more favorable than Saul Centers.
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Saul Centers has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. had 2 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. and 1 mentions for Saul Centers. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Saul Centers' score of -0.19 indicating that Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 15.51% compared to Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s net margin of 9.91%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 13.79% beat Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s return on equity.
Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Saul Centers pays out 178.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. pays out 236.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Saul Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Saul Centers. Saul Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips Edison & Company, Inc., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. beats Saul Centers on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
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This page (NYSE:BFS) was last updated on 10/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
