OUT vs. CUBE, BXP, FRT, EGP, OHI, NNN, COLD, AGNC, BRX, and STAG
Should you be buying OUTFRONT Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OUTFRONT Media include CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), EastGroup Properties (EGP), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), NNN REIT (NNN), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), and STAG Industrial (STAG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE) and OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
CubeSmart pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. OUTFRONT Media pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. CubeSmart pays out 113.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OUTFRONT Media pays out -45.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CubeSmart has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. OUTFRONT Media is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CubeSmart has a net margin of 38.64% compared to CubeSmart's net margin of -23.38%. OUTFRONT Media's return on equity of 14.48% beat CubeSmart's return on equity.
CubeSmart has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OUTFRONT Media has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CubeSmart currently has a consensus price target of $46.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.12%. OUTFRONT Media has a consensus price target of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.08%. Given OUTFRONT Media's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CubeSmart is more favorable than OUTFRONT Media.
CubeSmart received 152 more outperform votes than OUTFRONT Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave CubeSmart an outperform vote while only 57.91% of users gave OUTFRONT Media an outperform vote.
97.6% of CubeSmart shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of CubeSmart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of OUTFRONT Media shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CubeSmart has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CubeSmart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CubeSmart had 9 more articles in the media than OUTFRONT Media. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CubeSmart and 4 mentions for OUTFRONT Media. CubeSmart's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat OUTFRONT Media's score of 0.27 indicating that OUTFRONT Media is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CubeSmart beats OUTFRONT Media on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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