O vs. SPG, KIM, PSA, DLR, CCI, WELL, VICI, EXR, AVB, and EQIX
Should you be buying Realty Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Realty Income include Simon Property Group (SPG), Kimco Realty (KIM), Public Storage (PSA), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Crown Castle (CCI), Welltower (WELL), VICI Properties (VICI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), and Equinix (EQIX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) and Realty Income (NYSE:O) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Simon Property Group has a net margin of 42.30% compared to Simon Property Group's net margin of 21.39%. Realty Income's return on equity of 70.97% beat Simon Property Group's return on equity.
Simon Property Group pays an annual dividend of $7.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Simon Property Group pays out 111.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Realty Income pays out 244.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Simon Property Group has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Realty Income has raised its dividend for 32 consecutive years. Realty Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Simon Property Group has higher revenue and earnings than Realty Income. Simon Property Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Realty Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Simon Property Group received 354 more outperform votes than Realty Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.38% of users gave Simon Property Group an outperform vote while only 64.63% of users gave Realty Income an outperform vote.
Simon Property Group has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Realty Income has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Realty Income had 12 more articles in the media than Simon Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Realty Income and 30 mentions for Simon Property Group. Realty Income's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Simon Property Group's score of 0.51 indicating that Simon Property Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.0% of Simon Property Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Realty Income shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Simon Property Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Realty Income shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Simon Property Group presently has a consensus price target of $140.22, indicating a potential downside of 5.18%. Realty Income has a consensus price target of $60.96, indicating a potential upside of 11.26%. Given Simon Property Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Simon Property Group.
Summary
Simon Property Group beats Realty Income on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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