SKT vs. MAC, AKR, ROIC, KRG, ALX, BFS, ADC, FRT, EPR, and HHH
Should you be buying Tanger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tanger include Macerich (MAC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Agree Realty (ADC), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), EPR Properties (EPR), and Howard Hughes (HHH). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Tanger (NYSE:SKT) and Macerich (NYSE:MAC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Tanger has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Macerich has a beta of 2.33, suggesting that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tanger has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Macerich. Macerich is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tanger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tanger has a net margin of 21.19% compared to Macerich's net margin of -31.00%. Tanger's return on equity of 18.59% beat Macerich's return on equity.
Tanger currently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.42%. Macerich has a consensus target price of $14.40, indicating a potential downside of 8.10%. Given Tanger's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Tanger is more favorable than Macerich.
Macerich received 76 more outperform votes than Tanger when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.59% of users gave Tanger an outperform vote while only 51.91% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Macerich had 3 more articles in the media than Tanger. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Macerich and 5 mentions for Tanger. Macerich's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Tanger's score of 0.71 indicating that Macerich is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tanger pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Tanger pays out 119.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Macerich pays out -53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Macerich is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
85.2% of Tanger shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Macerich shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Tanger shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Macerich shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tanger beats Macerich on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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