KIM vs. FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, MAC, O, SPG, UDR, WPC, and HST
Should you be buying Kimco Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimco Realty include Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Realty Income (O), Simon Property Group (SPG), UDR (UDR), W. P. Carey (WPC), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM) and Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Kimco Realty currently has a consensus target price of $21.48, suggesting a potential upside of 11.75%. Federal Realty Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $113.60, suggesting a potential upside of 11.01%. Given Kimco Realty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kimco Realty is more favorable than Federal Realty Investment Trust.
89.3% of Kimco Realty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Kimco Realty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kimco Realty has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federal Realty Investment Trust has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kimco Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Federal Realty Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Kimco Realty pays out 181.1% 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.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.55% compared to Kimco Realty's net margin of 19.17%. Federal Realty Investment Trust's return on equity of 8.34% beat Kimco Realty's return on equity.
In the previous week, Federal Realty Investment Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Kimco Realty. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Federal Realty Investment Trust and 4 mentions for Kimco Realty. Federal Realty Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Kimco Realty's score of 1.12 indicating that Federal Realty Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kimco Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Federal Realty Investment Trust. Kimco Realty 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.
Kimco Realty received 179 more outperform votes than Federal Realty Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.88% of users gave Kimco Realty an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave Federal Realty Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Federal Realty Investment Trust beats Kimco Realty on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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