WELL vs. PSA, AMT, EXR, VTR, EQIX, SPG, O, DLR, CCI, and VICI
Should you be buying Welltower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Welltower include Public Storage (PSA), American Tower (AMT), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Ventas (VTR), Equinix (EQIX), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Crown Castle (CCI), and VICI Properties (VICI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) and Welltower (NYSE:WELL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Public Storage presently has a consensus target price of $305.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.33%. Welltower has a consensus target price of $96.07, indicating a potential downside of 2.39%. Given Welltower's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Public Storage is more favorable than Welltower.
Public Storage has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Welltower has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Public Storage pays an annual dividend of $12.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Welltower pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Public Storage pays out 109.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Welltower pays out 301.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Public Storage has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Public Storage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Welltower received 274 more outperform votes than Public Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.90% of users gave Welltower an outperform vote while only 51.39% of users gave Public Storage an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Public Storage had 5 more articles in the media than Welltower. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Public Storage and 11 mentions for Welltower. Welltower's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Public Storage's score of 0.80 indicating that Public Storage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.8% of Public Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Welltower shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Public Storage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Welltower shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Public Storage has a net margin of 45.62% compared to Public Storage's net margin of 6.37%. Welltower's return on equity of 36.17% beat Public Storage's return on equity.
Public Storage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Welltower. Public Storage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Welltower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Public Storage beats Welltower on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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