NSA vs. SITC, SKT, MPW, HASI, HHH, EPR, BNL, LXP, SLG, and SBRA
Should you be buying National Storage Affiliates Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Storage Affiliates Trust include SITE Centers (SITC), Tanger (SKT), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), Howard Hughes (HHH), EPR Properties (EPR), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), SL Green Realty (SLG), and Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE:NSA) and SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
SITE Centers has a net margin of 49.25% compared to National Storage Affiliates Trust's net margin of 18.26%. SITE Centers' return on equity of 14.00% beat National Storage Affiliates Trust's return on equity.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SITE Centers has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
National Storage Affiliates Trust presently has a consensus target price of $36.60, suggesting a potential upside of 4.81%. SITE Centers has a consensus target price of $14.25, suggesting a potential upside of 5.71%. Given SITE Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SITE Centers is more favorable than National Storage Affiliates Trust.
National Storage Affiliates Trust received 251 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.34% of users gave National Storage Affiliates Trust an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
National Storage Affiliates Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays out 149.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SITE Centers pays out 43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
100.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SITE Centers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than National Storage Affiliates Trust. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Storage Affiliates Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SITE Centers had 1 more articles in the media than National Storage Affiliates Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SITE Centers and 4 mentions for National Storage Affiliates Trust. National Storage Affiliates Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat SITE Centers' score of 0.62 indicating that National Storage Affiliates Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SITE Centers beats National Storage Affiliates Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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