MAC vs. SKT, ROIC, AKR, ALX, BFS, RPT, UBA, KRG, ADC, and FRT
Should you be buying Macerich stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macerich include Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), RPT Realty (RPT), Urstadt Biddle Properties (UBA), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Macerich vs.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) and Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (NYSE:SKT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Macerich has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its stock price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Macerich pays out -226.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers pays out 114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Macerich is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Macerich presently has a consensus price target of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 31.72%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.06%. Given Macerich's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Macerich is more favorable than Tanger Factory Outlet Centers.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has a net margin of 18.44% compared to Macerich's net margin of -7.69%. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers' return on equity of 15.90% beat Macerich's return on equity.
In the previous week, Macerich and Macerich both had 4 articles in the media. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Macerich's score of 0.12 indicating that Tanger Factory Outlet Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.8% of Macerich shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.6% of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Macerich shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Macerich received 79 more outperform votes than Tanger Factory Outlet Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.64% of users gave Tanger Factory Outlet Centers an outperform vote while only 53.01% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers beats Macerich on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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