ALX vs. BFS, ROIC, AKR, SKT, MAC, MFA, UMH, SVC, FBRT, and PGRE
Should you be buying Alexander's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexander's include Saul Centers (BFS), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and Paramount Group (PGRE).
Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and Alexander's (NYSE:ALX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Alexander's shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.3% of Alexander's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexander's has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Saul Centers presently has a consensus target price of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.47%. Given Alexander's' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Alexander's.
Saul Centers received 129 more outperform votes than Alexander's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.60% of users gave Alexander's an outperform vote while only 53.93% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote.
Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Alexander's pays an annual dividend of $18.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Saul Centers pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexander's pays out 90.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexander's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Alexander's had 2 more articles in the media than Saul Centers. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Alexander's and 0 mentions for Saul Centers. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Alexander's' score of -0.10 indicating that Alexander's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alexander's has a net margin of 45.53% compared to Alexander's' net margin of 20.49%. Saul Centers' return on equity of 41.97% beat Alexander's' return on equity.
Alexander's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Saul Centers. Alexander's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alexander's beats Saul Centers on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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