SITC vs. LAMR, ELS, REG, CPT, REXR, NLY, BXP, CUBE, FRT, and OHI
Should you be buying SITE Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SITE Centers include Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Regency Centers (REG), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Boston Properties (BXP), CubeSmart (CUBE), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) and Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
SITE Centers currently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential downside of 0.31%. Lamar Advertising has a consensus target price of $109.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.29%. Given SITE Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe SITE Centers is more favorable than Lamar Advertising.
SITE Centers has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lamar Advertising had 16 more articles in the media than SITE Centers. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Lamar Advertising and 9 mentions for SITE Centers. SITE Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Lamar Advertising's score of 0.29 indicating that SITE Centers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lamar Advertising has higher revenue and earnings than SITE Centers. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamar Advertising, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lamar Advertising received 364 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.14% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% 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 has a net margin of 43.36% compared to Lamar Advertising's net margin of 23.29%. Lamar Advertising's return on equity of 41.86% beat SITE Centers' return on equity.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats SITE Centers on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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