FRT vs. NNN, ADC, KRG, KIM, CUBE, REXR, NLY, BXP, OHI, and EGP
Should you be buying Federal Realty Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Realty Investment Trust include NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Kimco Realty (KIM), CubeSmart (CUBE), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Boston Properties (BXP), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), and EastGroup Properties (EGP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
NNN REIT (NYSE:NNN) and Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Federal Realty Investment Trust had 11 more articles in the media than NNN REIT. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Federal Realty Investment Trust and 11 mentions for NNN REIT. Federal Realty Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat NNN REIT's score of 0.54 indicating that NNN REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.0% of NNN REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of NNN REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NNN REIT has a net margin of 47.24% compared to NNN REIT's net margin of 20.55%. Federal Realty Investment Trust's return on equity of 9.53% beat NNN REIT's return on equity.
NNN REIT currently has a consensus target price of $44.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.66%. Federal Realty Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $113.30, suggesting a potential upside of 10.96%. Given NNN REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Federal Realty Investment Trust is more favorable than NNN REIT.
NNN REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Federal Realty Investment Trust. NNN REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federal Realty Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NNN REIT has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Federal Realty Investment Trust has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NNN REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. NNN REIT pays out 103.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays out 155.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NNN REIT has raised its dividend for 34 consecutive years and Federal Realty Investment Trust has raised its dividend for 57 consecutive years. NNN REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Federal Realty Investment Trust received 35 more outperform votes than NNN REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.10% of users gave NNN REIT an outperform vote while only 60.22% of users gave Federal Realty Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Federal Realty Investment Trust beats NNN REIT on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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