ADC vs. KRG, RYN, MAC, PCH, SKT, FRT, AKR, ROIC, KIM, and AIRC
Should you be buying Agree Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agree Realty include Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Rayonier (RYN), Macerich (MAC), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Tanger (SKT), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Kimco Realty (KIM), and Apartment Income REIT (AIRC).
Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) and Agree Realty (NYSE:ADC) are both mid-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.
Kite Realty Group Trust presently has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.30%. Agree Realty has a consensus target price of $65.61, suggesting a potential upside of 13.57%. Given Agree Realty's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kite Realty Group Trust is more favorable than Agree Realty.
Agree Realty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kite Realty Group Trust. Agree Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kite Realty Group Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kite Realty Group Trust has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agree Realty has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kite Realty Group Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Agree Realty pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Kite Realty Group Trust pays out 454.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Agree Realty pays out 174.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kite Realty Group Trust has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Agree Realty has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Agree Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Agree Realty received 92 more outperform votes than Kite Realty Group Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.87% of users gave Agree Realty an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Kite Realty Group Trust an outperform vote.
90.8% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of Agree Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Agree Realty 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.
Agree Realty has a net margin of 30.91% compared to Agree Realty's net margin of 5.77%. Kite Realty Group Trust's return on equity of 3.48% beat Agree Realty's return on equity.
In the previous week, Agree Realty had 20 more articles in the media than Kite Realty Group Trust. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Agree Realty and 4 mentions for Kite Realty Group Trust. Agree Realty's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Kite Realty Group Trust's score of 0.81 indicating that Kite Realty Group Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Agree Realty beats Kite Realty Group Trust on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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