BFS vs. AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, O, SPG, KIM, ADC, FRT, and NNN
Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), Alexander's (ALX), Realty Income (O), Simon Property Group (SPG), Kimco Realty (KIM), Agree Realty (ADC), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), and NNN REIT (NNN). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Saul Centers vs. Its Competitors
Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Acadia Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.55%. Saul Centers has a consensus target price of $45.50, indicating a potential upside of 33.59%. Given Acadia Realty Trust's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Acadia Realty Trust is more favorable than Saul Centers.
Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saul Centers has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Saul Centers pays out 160.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Acadia Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Saul Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Saul Centers. Acadia Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Saul Centers' score of 0.38 indicating that Acadia Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 50.2% of Saul Centers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Saul Centers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acadia Realty Trust. Saul Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acadia Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 17.09% compared to Acadia Realty Trust's net margin of 5.36%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 14.69% beat Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Acadia Realty Trust beats Saul Centers on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BFS) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
