VNO vs. CUZ, LXP, AAT, HR, RITM, KRG, AIRC, ADC, EPRT, and PECO
Should you be buying Vornado Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vornado Realty Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Rithm Capital (RITM), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Agree Realty (ADC), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) and Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vornado Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Cousins Properties. Cousins Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vornado Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Vornado Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Cousins Properties pays out 232.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vornado Realty Trust pays out 521.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cousins Properties presently has a consensus target price of $23.29, indicating a potential downside of 3.26%. Vornado Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $24.80, indicating a potential downside of 13.80%. Given Vornado Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cousins Properties is more favorable than Vornado Realty Trust.
Vornado Realty Trust received 250 more outperform votes than Cousins Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.84% of users gave Vornado Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.99% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 10.33% compared to Cousins Properties' net margin of 5.82%. Cousins Properties' return on equity of 3.22% beat Vornado Realty Trust's return on equity.
Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vornado Realty Trust has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vornado Realty Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Cousins Properties. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Vornado Realty Trust and 5 mentions for Cousins Properties. Cousins Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Vornado Realty Trust's score of -0.07 indicating that Vornado Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cousins Properties and Vornado Realty Trust tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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