OUT vs. CUBE, BXP, FRT, EGP, OHI, NNN, COLD, AGNC, BRX, and STAG
Should you be buying OUTFRONT Media stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OUTFRONT Media include CubeSmart (CUBE), Boston Properties (BXP), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), EastGroup Properties (EGP), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), NNN REIT (NNN), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), and STAG Industrial (STAG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT) and CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
CubeSmart has a net margin of 38.64% compared to OUTFRONT Media's net margin of -23.38%. CubeSmart's return on equity of 14.48% beat OUTFRONT Media's return on equity.
OUTFRONT Media pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. CubeSmart pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. OUTFRONT Media pays out -45.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CubeSmart pays out 113.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OUTFRONT Media is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
97.6% of CubeSmart shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of OUTFRONT Media shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of CubeSmart shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
OUTFRONT Media has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CubeSmart has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CubeSmart has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT Media is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CubeSmart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OUTFRONT Media presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.08%. CubeSmart has a consensus target price of $46.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.12%. Given CubeSmart's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CubeSmart is more favorable than OUTFRONT Media.
CubeSmart received 152 more outperform votes than OUTFRONT Media when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave CubeSmart an outperform vote while only 57.91% of users gave OUTFRONT Media an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CubeSmart had 9 more articles in the media than OUTFRONT Media. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CubeSmart and 4 mentions for OUTFRONT Media. OUTFRONT Media's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat CubeSmart's score of 0.40 indicating that OUTFRONT Media is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CubeSmart beats OUTFRONT Media on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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