VNO vs. CUZ, LXP, AAT, RITM, HR, AIRC, KRG, ADC, EPRT, and FR
Should you be buying Vornado Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vornado Realty Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Rithm Capital (RITM), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Agree Realty (ADC), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), and First Industrial Realty Trust (FR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) and Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
90.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cousins 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.
Vornado Realty Trust has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vornado Realty Trust received 250 more outperform votes than Cousins Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.84% of users gave Vornado Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cousins Properties had 15 more articles in the media than Vornado Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Cousins Properties and 4 mentions for Vornado Realty Trust. Vornado Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Cousins Properties' score of 0.38 indicating that Vornado Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vornado Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Vornado Realty Trust pays out 521.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Vornado Realty Trust's net margin of 5.82%. Vornado Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.22% beat Cousins Properties' return on equity.
Vornado Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $24.80, suggesting a potential downside of 5.56%. Cousins Properties has a consensus target price of $23.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.53%. Given Cousins Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cousins Properties is more favorable than Vornado Realty Trust.
Vornado Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Cousins Properties. Cousins Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vornado Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats Vornado Realty Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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