BFS vs. ALX, ROIC, AKR, SKT, MAC, NXRT, BRSP, ARR, BDN, and PLYM
Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Alexander's (ALX), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), and Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Alexander's (NYSE:ALX) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Alexander's pays an annual dividend of $18.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Alexander's pays out 90.1% 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 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexander's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alexander's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saul Centers. Alexander's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.0% of Alexander's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Saul Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of Alexander's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Saul Centers had 1 more articles in the media than Alexander's. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Saul Centers and 2 mentions for Alexander's. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Alexander's' score of -0.12 indicating that Alexander's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Saul Centers received 129 more outperform votes than Alexander's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.60% of users gave Alexander's an outperform vote while only 53.93% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote.
Saul Centers has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.83%. Given Alexander's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Alexander's.
Alexander's has a net margin of 45.53% compared to Alexander's' net margin of 20.49%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 41.97% beat Alexander's' return on equity.
Alexander's has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alexander's beats Saul Centers on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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