VNO vs. CUZ, LXP, AAT, WSR, GOOD, OLP, GYRO, ESS, MAA, and SUI
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), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), and Sun Communities (SUI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) and Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Vornado Realty Trust received 250 more outperform votes than Cousins Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.56% of users gave Vornado Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.39% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
Vornado Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $24.45, suggesting a potential downside of 0.27%. Cousins Properties has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 2.32%. Given Cousins Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cousins Properties is more favorable than Vornado Realty Trust.
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.
In the previous week, Vornado Realty Trust and Vornado Realty Trust both had 3 articles in the media. Cousins Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Vornado Realty Trust's score of 0.75 indicating that Cousins Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vornado Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Vornado Realty Trust pays out 200.0% 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 pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Vornado Realty Trust has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Vornado Realty Trust's net margin of 5.07%. Vornado Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.02% beat Cousins Properties' return on equity.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats Vornado Realty Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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