VICI vs. EQIX, WELL, SPG, PSA, O, DLR, EXR, AVB, EQR, and IRM
Should you be buying VICI Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VICI Properties include Equinix (EQIX), Welltower (WELL), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), Realty Income (O), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Extra Space Storage (EXR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), and Iron Mountain (IRM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) and Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
97.7% of VICI Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Equinix shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Equinix shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Equinix received 793 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.86% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote.
VICI Properties currently has a consensus target price of $34.18, suggesting a potential upside of 19.06%. Equinix has a consensus target price of $872.81, suggesting a potential upside of 14.40%. Given VICI Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Equinix.
VICI Properties has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinix has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VICI Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Equinix. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 70.13% compared to Equinix's net margin of 11.32%. VICI Properties' return on equity of 10.33% beat Equinix's return on equity.
VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Equinix pays an annual dividend of $17.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. VICI Properties pays out 65.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equinix pays out 170.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Equinix had 15 more articles in the media than VICI Properties. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Equinix and 13 mentions for VICI Properties. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Equinix's score of 0.40 indicating that VICI Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Equinix on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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