BFS vs. MAC, SKT, AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, SPG, O, KIM, and FRT
Should you be buying Saul Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saul Centers include Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), Alexander's (ALX), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Kimco Realty (KIM), and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Macerich presently has a consensus price target of $14.71, suggesting a potential downside of 2.68%. Saul Centers has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.54%. Given Macerich's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Macerich.
Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Macerich pays out -43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saul Centers pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Macerich has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Saul Centers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Macerich has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.4% of Macerich shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Macerich shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Macerich received 221 more outperform votes than Saul Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.91% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote while only 51.74% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Saul Centers' net margin of -38.96%. Macerich's return on equity of 16.20% beat Saul Centers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Macerich had 9 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Macerich and 1 mentions for Saul Centers. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat Macerich's score of -0.70 indicating that Macerich is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Saul Centers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Saul Centers beats Macerich on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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