MAC vs. FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, SKT, AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, and BFS
Should you be buying Macerich stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macerich include Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), Alexander's (ALX), and Saul Centers (BFS). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) and Macerich (NYSE:MAC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Macerich has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Federal Realty Investment Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Macerich. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Federal Realty Investment Trust and 9 mentions for Macerich. Macerich's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Federal Realty Investment Trust's score of 0.17 indicating that Federal Realty Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Federal Realty Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of $114.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.93%. Macerich has a consensus target price of $14.71, indicating a potential downside of 2.68%. Given Macerich's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Federal Realty Investment Trust is more favorable than Macerich.
Federal Realty Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $4.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. 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. Macerich pays out -43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Federal Realty Investment Trust has increased its dividend for 57 consecutive years and Macerich has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Macerich is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Macerich. Macerich 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.
Federal Realty Investment Trust received 19 more outperform votes than Macerich when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.29% of users gave Federal Realty Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 51.74% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Federal Realty Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.55% compared to Federal Realty Investment Trust's net margin of -38.96%. Macerich's return on equity of 8.34% beat Federal Realty Investment Trust's return on equity.
93.9% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Macerich shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Federal Realty Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Macerich shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Federal Realty Investment Trust beats Macerich on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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