VNO vs. CUZ, LXP, AAT, KRG, EPRT, PECO, KRC, RITM, IRT, and AIRC
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), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Rithm Capital (RITM), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), and Apartment Income REIT (AIRC). 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 better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Vornado Realty Trust has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share 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, 60.70% of users gave Vornado Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 56.63% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote.
Vornado Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Vornado Realty Trust pays out 800.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Vornado Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $24.70, suggesting a potential downside of 0.60%. Cousins Properties has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.02%. Given Vornado Realty Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vornado Realty Trust is more favorable than Cousins Properties.
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.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Vornado Realty Trust's net margin of 5.07%. Vornado Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.02% beat Cousins Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, Vornado Realty Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Cousins Properties. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Vornado Realty Trust and 6 mentions for Cousins Properties. Vornado Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Cousins Properties' score of 0.64 indicating that Vornado Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.0% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Vornado Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held 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.
Summary
Vornado Realty Trust beats Cousins Properties on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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