VICI vs. DLR, SPG, WELL, AVB, SBAC, EQR, O, EXR, ARE, and VTR
Should you be buying VICI Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VICI Properties include Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Simon Property Group (SPG), Welltower (WELL), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), SBA Communications (SBAC), Equity Residential (EQR), Realty Income (O), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), and Ventas (VTR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
VICI Properties vs.
Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) 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.
Digital Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $116.92, indicating a potential upside of 16.23%. VICI Properties has a consensus target price of $36.75, indicating a potential upside of 20.41%. Given VICI Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Digital Realty Trust.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 45.60% compared to Digital Realty Trust's net margin of 7.61%. VICI Properties' return on equity of 8.33% beat Digital Realty Trust's return on equity.
Digital Realty Trust received 511 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.05% of users gave Digital Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 64.61% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote.
VICI Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Digital Realty Trust. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digital Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Digital Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Digital Realty Trust pays out 439.6% 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 109.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Digital Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years and VICI Properties has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
95.0% of Digital Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Digital Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% 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.
Digital Realty Trust has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VICI Properties has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Digital Realty Trust had 8 more articles in the media than VICI Properties. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Digital Realty Trust and 4 mentions for VICI Properties. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Digital Realty Trust's score of 0.87 indicating that VICI Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Digital Realty Trust on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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