BNL vs. ARE, EPRT, FCPT, GNL, GTY, LXP, NNN, O, STAG, and WPC
Should you be buying Broadstone Net Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadstone Net Lease include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT), Global Net Lease (GNL), Getty Realty (GTY), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), NNN REIT (NNN), Realty Income (O), Stag Industrial (STAG), and W.P. Carey (WPC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Broadstone Net Lease vs. Its Competitors
Broadstone Net Lease (NYSE:BNL) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Broadstone Net Lease currently has a consensus price target of $18.67, suggesting a potential upside of 16.45%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a consensus price target of $99.54, suggesting a potential upside of 24.99%. Given Alexandria Real Estate Equities' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than Broadstone Net Lease.
89.1% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has higher revenue and earnings than Broadstone Net Lease. Broadstone Net Lease 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.
Broadstone Net Lease has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 8 more articles in the media than Broadstone Net Lease. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 2 mentions for Broadstone Net Lease. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Broadstone Net Lease's score of 0.99 indicating that Alexandria Real Estate Equities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Broadstone Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Broadstone Net Lease pays out 190.2% 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 694.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Broadstone Net Lease has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Alexandria Real Estate Equities has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Broadstone Net Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Broadstone Net Lease has a net margin of 26.22% compared to Alexandria Real Estate Equities' net margin of 4.62%. Broadstone Net Lease's return on equity of 3.63% beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity.
Summary
Alexandria Real Estate Equities beats Broadstone Net Lease on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BNL) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
