SPG vs. O, KIM, FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, MAC, SKT, AKR, and ROIC
Should you be buying Simon Property Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simon Property Group include Realty Income (O), 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 better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
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.
70.8% of Realty Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Simon Property Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Realty Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Simon Property Group shares are held 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.
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.
Simon Property Group has a net margin of 46.49% compared to Simon Property Group's net margin of 17.74%. Realty Income's return on equity of 78.50% beat Simon Property Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Realty Income had 5 more articles in the media than Simon Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Realty Income and 21 mentions for Simon Property Group. Realty Income's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Simon Property Group's score of 0.70 indicating that Simon Property Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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. Realty Income has increased its dividend for 32 consecutive years and Simon Property Group has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Realty Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Realty Income presently has a consensus target price of $61.35, suggesting a potential upside of 15.57%. Simon Property Group has a consensus target price of $145.33, suggesting a potential downside of 3.95%. Given Simon Property Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Simon Property Group.
Summary
Simon Property Group beats Realty Income on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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