SLG vs. ARE, BXP, KRC, HIW, DEI, PDM, BDN, HPP, EQC, and DLR
Should you be buying SL Green Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SL Green Realty include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Boston Properties (BXP), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Highwoods Properties (HIW), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR). These companies are all part of the "office reits" industry.
SL Green Realty vs.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) and SL Green Realty (NYSE:SLG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of SL Green Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of SL Green Realty shares are held by company 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.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SL Green Realty has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 14 more articles in the media than SL Green Realty. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 4 mentions for SL Green Realty. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat SL Green Realty's score of 0.60 indicating that Alexandria Real Estate Equities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SL Green Realty received 56 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.44% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote while only 58.34% of users gave SL Green Realty an outperform vote.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities currently has a consensus target price of $116.00, suggesting a potential upside of 58.19%. SL Green Realty has a consensus target price of $66.33, suggesting a potential upside of 1.16%. Given Alexandria Real Estate Equities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than SL Green Realty.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a net margin of 10.36% compared to SL Green Realty's net margin of 2.48%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 1.43% beat SL Green Realty's return on equity.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has higher revenue and earnings than SL Green Realty. SL Green Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. SL Green Realty pays an annual dividend of $3.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 694.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SL Green Realty pays out -735.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and SL Green Realty has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Alexandria Real Estate Equities beats SL Green Realty on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SLG) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
