PLD vs. AMT, EQIX, WELL, SPG, O, PSA, DLR, CCI, VICI, and EXR
Should you be buying Prologis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prologis include American Tower (AMT), Equinix (EQIX), Welltower (WELL), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Public Storage (PSA), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Crown Castle (CCI), VICI Properties (VICI), and Extra Space Storage (EXR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Prologis (NYSE:PLD) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Prologis has a net margin of 38.73% compared to American Tower's net margin of 13.31%. American Tower's return on equity of 12.80% beat Prologis' return on equity.
93.5% of Prologis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Prologis shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
American Tower received 57 more outperform votes than Prologis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.94% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 70.48% of users gave Prologis an outperform vote.
Prologis has higher earnings, but lower revenue than American Tower. Prologis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Prologis had 21 more articles in the media than American Tower. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Prologis and 12 mentions for American Tower. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Prologis' score of 0.27 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prologis presently has a consensus price target of $134.24, suggesting a potential upside of 29.88%. American Tower has a consensus price target of $217.36, suggesting a potential upside of 25.67%. Given Prologis' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Prologis is more favorable than American Tower.
Prologis pays an annual dividend of $3.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Prologis pays out 112.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Tower pays out 203.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Prologis has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Prologis beats American Tower on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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