KRG vs. MAC, ADC, SKT, AKR, NNN, ROIC, FRT, KIM, EPRT, and PECO
Should you be buying Kite Realty Group Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kite Realty Group Trust include Macerich (MAC), Agree Realty (ADC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), NNN REIT (NNN), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Kimco Realty (KIM), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) and Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Kite Realty Group Trust has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Kite Realty Group Trust's net margin of -31.00%. Macerich's return on equity of 1.30% beat Kite Realty Group Trust's return on equity.
87.4% of Macerich shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Macerich shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Kite Realty Group Trust 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.
Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Kite Realty Group Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Macerich pays out -53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kite Realty Group Trust pays out 454.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kite Realty Group Trust has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Kite Realty Group Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Macerich has a beta of 2.33, suggesting that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kite Realty Group Trust has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kite Realty Group Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Macerich. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kite Realty Group Trust and 6 mentions for Macerich. Macerich's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Kite Realty Group Trust's score of 0.68 indicating that Kite Realty Group Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Macerich received 131 more outperform votes than Kite Realty Group Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.75% of users gave Kite Realty Group Trust an outperform vote while only 51.91% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Kite Realty Group Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kite Realty Group Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Macerich presently has a consensus price target of $14.40, indicating a potential downside of 10.84%. Kite Realty Group Trust has a consensus price target of $25.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.57%. Given Macerich's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kite Realty Group Trust is more favorable than Macerich.
Summary
Kite Realty Group Trust beats Macerich on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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