FRT vs. REG, AKR, BRX, CBRE, KIM, KRG, O, SPG, UE, and NNN
Should you be buying Federal Realty Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Realty Investment Trust include Regency Centers (REG), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), CBRE Group (CBRE), Kimco Realty (KIM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Realty Income (O), Simon Property Group (SPG), Urban Edge Properties (UE), and NNN REIT (NNN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Federal Realty Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors
Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG) and Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Regency Centers presently has a consensus target price of $78.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.49%. Federal Realty Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $112.07, suggesting a potential upside of 18.10%. Given Federal Realty Investment Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Federal Realty Investment Trust is more favorable than Regency Centers.
Regency Centers has a net margin of 27.21% compared to Federal Realty Investment Trust's net margin of 24.77%. Federal Realty Investment Trust's return on equity of 9.97% beat Regency Centers' return on equity.
Regency Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Regency Centers pays out 133.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays out 126.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Regency Centers has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Federal Realty Investment Trust has raised its dividend for 58 consecutive years. Federal Realty Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Federal Realty Investment Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Regency Centers. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Federal Realty Investment Trust and 6 mentions for Regency Centers. Regency Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Federal Realty Investment Trust's score of 0.80 indicating that Regency Centers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Regency Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Federal Realty Investment Trust. Federal Realty Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regency Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.1% of Regency Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Regency Centers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Regency Centers has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Federal Realty Investment Trust has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Regency Centers and Federal Realty Investment Trust tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:FRT) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
