BFS vs. AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, SPG, O, 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), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), 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.
Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. 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 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. 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.
Saul Centers has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 currently has a consensus price target of $45.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.22%. Acadia Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $22.67, indicating a potential upside of 13.58%. Given Saul Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Acadia Realty Trust.
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 20.84% compared to Acadia Realty Trust's net margin of 5.74%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 17.16% beat Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity.
Saul Centers has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Saul Centers. Acadia Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Saul Centers' score of 0.00 indicating that Acadia Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Acadia Realty Trust received 33 more outperform votes than Saul Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.85% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote while only 52.05% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Saul Centers beats Acadia Realty Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BFS) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
