FSP vs. BDN, BRSP, DX, UNIT, TRTX, INN, KREF, WSR, CHCT, and GMRE
Should you be buying Franklin Street Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Street Properties include Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Dynex Capital (DX), Uniti Group (UNIT), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) and Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Brandywine Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Franklin Street Properties pays out -7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brandywine Realty Trust pays out -49.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brandywine Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Brandywine Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Franklin Street Properties. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brandywine Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Franklin Street Properties. Brandywine Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Franklin Street Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that Brandywine Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Street Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brandywine Realty Trust. Brandywine Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Street Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brandywine Realty Trust has a net margin of -40.61% compared to Franklin Street Properties' net margin of -41.73%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of -8.05% beat Brandywine Realty Trust's return on equity.
Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brandywine Realty Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brandywine Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $5.63, indicating a potential upside of 22.02%. Given Brandywine Realty Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brandywine Realty Trust is more favorable than Franklin Street Properties.
Brandywine Realty Trust received 373 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.61% of users gave Brandywine Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Brandywine Realty Trust beats Franklin Street Properties on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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