DLR vs. ARE, BXP, SLG, KRC, HIW, DEI, PDM, BDN, HPP, and EQC
Should you be buying Digital Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Digital Realty Trust include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Boston Properties (BXP), SL Green Realty (SLG), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Highwoods Properties (HIW), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), and Equity Commonwealth (EQC). These companies are all part of the "office reits" industry.
Digital Realty Trust vs.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) and Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities presently has a consensus price target of $116.00, suggesting a potential upside of 58.19%. Digital Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $185.10, suggesting a potential upside of 4.12%. Given Alexandria Real Estate Equities' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than Digital Realty Trust.
In the previous week, Digital Realty Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Digital Realty Trust and 18 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Digital Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' score of 1.28 indicating that Digital Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Digital Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Digital Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Digital Realty Trust received 355 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.42% of users gave Digital Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
Digital Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digital Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Digital Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. Digital Realty Trust pays out 456.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digital Realty Trust has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Digital Realty Trust has a net margin of 10.85% compared to Alexandria Real Estate Equities' net margin of 10.36%. Digital Realty Trust's return on equity of 2.97% beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity.
Summary
Digital Realty Trust beats Alexandria Real Estate Equities on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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