SITC vs. ELS, CPT, REG, NLY, REXR, CUBE, BXP, FRT, OHI, and EGP
Should you be buying SITE Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SITE Centers include Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Regency Centers (REG), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), and EastGroup Properties (EGP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Equity LifeStyle Properties (NYSE:ELS) and SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Equity LifeStyle Properties presently has a consensus price target of $68.85, suggesting a potential upside of 9.69%. SITE Centers has a consensus price target of $14.38, suggesting a potential downside of 0.31%. Given SITE Centers' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Equity LifeStyle Properties is more favorable than SITE Centers.
In the previous week, SITE Centers had 7 more articles in the media than Equity LifeStyle Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for SITE Centers and 2 mentions for Equity LifeStyle Properties. SITE Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Equity LifeStyle Properties' score of 0.13 indicating that Equity LifeStyle Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.2% of Equity LifeStyle Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of SITE Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Equity LifeStyle Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Equity LifeStyle Properties received 322 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.65% of users gave Equity LifeStyle Properties an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
Equity LifeStyle Properties has higher revenue and earnings than SITE Centers. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity LifeStyle Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equity LifeStyle Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Equity LifeStyle Properties pays out 104.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equity LifeStyle Properties has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. SITE Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Equity LifeStyle Properties has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SITE Centers has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SITE Centers has a net margin of 43.36% compared to SITE Centers' net margin of 22.69%. SITE Centers' return on equity of 22.71% beat Equity LifeStyle Properties' return on equity.
Summary
Equity LifeStyle Properties beats SITE Centers on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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