VICI vs. EXR, AVB, EQR, IRM, SBAC, ARE, CCI, ESS, SUI, and MAA
Should you be buying VICI Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VICI Properties include Extra Space Storage (EXR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), Iron Mountain (IRM), SBA Communications (SBAC), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Crown Castle (CCI), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Sun Communities (SUI), and Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) and VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Extra Space Storage has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VICI Properties has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Extra Space Storage presently has a consensus target price of $150.17, indicating a potential upside of 13.37%. VICI Properties has a consensus target price of $34.36, indicating a potential upside of 23.21%. Given Extra Space Storage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Extra Space Storage.
Extra Space Storage pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Extra Space Storage pays out 131.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VICI Properties pays out 66.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VICI Properties has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 69.59% compared to VICI Properties' net margin of 31.81%. Extra Space Storage's return on equity of 10.26% beat VICI Properties' return on equity.
Extra Space Storage received 211 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.84% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Extra Space Storage an outperform vote.
99.1% of Extra Space Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of VICI Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Extra Space Storage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Extra Space Storage had 1 more articles in the media than VICI Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Extra Space Storage and 8 mentions for VICI Properties. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Extra Space Storage's score of 0.99 indicating that Extra Space Storage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
VICI Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Extra Space Storage. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Extra Space Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Extra Space Storage on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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