OUT vs. FRT, OHI, EGP, NNN, COLD, AGNC, BRX, STAG, ADC, and HR
Should you be buying OUTFRONT Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OUTFRONT Media include Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), EastGroup Properties (EGP), NNN REIT (NNN), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), STAG Industrial (STAG), Agree Realty (ADC), and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT) and Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
93.9% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of OUTFRONT Media shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
OUTFRONT Media presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.96%. Federal Realty Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $114.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.43%. Given Federal Realty Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Federal Realty Investment Trust is more favorable than OUTFRONT Media.
Federal Realty Investment Trust received 213 more outperform votes than OUTFRONT Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.29% of users gave Federal Realty Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 57.91% of users gave OUTFRONT Media an outperform vote.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federal Realty Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OUTFRONT Media pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. OUTFRONT Media pays out -45.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays out 155.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OUTFRONT Media is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.55% compared to OUTFRONT Media's net margin of -23.38%. Federal Realty Investment Trust's return on equity of 8.34% beat OUTFRONT Media's return on equity.
In the previous week, Federal Realty Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than OUTFRONT Media. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Federal Realty Investment Trust and 7 mentions for OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT Media's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Federal Realty Investment Trust's score of 1.22 indicating that OUTFRONT Media is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OUTFRONT Media has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federal Realty Investment Trust has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Federal Realty Investment Trust beats OUTFRONT Media on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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