O vs. SPG, KIM, FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, MAC, SKT, AKR, and ROIC
Should you be buying Realty Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Realty Income include Simon Property Group (SPG), Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), and Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Realty Income (NYSE:O) and Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Realty Income had 10 more articles in the media than Simon Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Realty Income and 20 mentions for Simon Property Group. Simon Property Group's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Realty Income's score of 0.70 indicating that Simon Property Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Realty Income presently has a consensus target price of $61.35, indicating a potential upside of 15.62%. Simon Property Group has a consensus target price of $145.33, indicating a potential downside of 3.95%. Given Realty Income's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Simon Property Group.
70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Simon Property Group pays an annual dividend of $7.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Realty Income pays out 285.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Simon Property Group pays out 99.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Simon Property Group has higher revenue and earnings than Realty Income. Simon Property Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Realty Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Simon Property Group received 352 more outperform votes than Realty Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.32% of users gave Simon Property Group an outperform vote while only 64.63% of users gave Realty Income an outperform vote.
Simon Property Group has a net margin of 46.49% compared to Realty Income's net margin of 17.74%. Simon Property Group's return on equity of 78.50% beat Realty Income's return on equity.
Realty Income has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simon Property Group has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Simon Property Group beats Realty Income on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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