CBL vs. BFS, ALX, ROIC, AKR, DX, CHCT, KREF, INN, NYMT, and RWT
Should you be buying CBL & Associates Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CBL & Associates Properties include Saul Centers (BFS), Alexander's (ALX), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Dynex Capital (DX), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Redwood Trust (RWT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and CBL & Associates Properties (NYSE:CBL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CBL & Associates Properties has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of CBL & Associates Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of CBL & Associates Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CBL & Associates Properties received 70 more outperform votes than Saul Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.36% of users gave CBL & Associates Properties 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 6.6%. CBL & Associates Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. 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. CBL & Associates Properties pays out 941.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CBL & Associates Properties has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. CBL & Associates Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Saul Centers has a net margin of 20.49% compared to Saul Centers' net margin of 1.22%. CBL & Associates Properties' return on equity of 16.14% beat Saul Centers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Saul Centers and Saul Centers both had 1 articles in the media. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat CBL & Associates Properties' score of -0.05 indicating that CBL & Associates Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saul Centers presently has a consensus price target of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.43%. Given CBL & Associates Properties' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than CBL & Associates Properties.
Saul Centers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CBL & Associates Properties. Saul Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CBL & Associates Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Saul Centers beats CBL & Associates Properties on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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