PECO vs. KRC, IRT, CUZ, APLE, VNO, CTRE, KRG, SBRA, EPRT, and SLG
Should you be buying Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. include Kilroy Realty (KRC), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), and SL Green Realty (SLG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:PECO) and Kilroy Realty (NYSE:KRC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
80.7% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Kilroy Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Kilroy Realty shares are held by company 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.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. presently has a consensus target price of $38.14, indicating a potential upside of 17.00%. Kilroy Realty has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.31%. Given Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. is more favorable than Kilroy Realty.
Kilroy Realty received 436 more outperform votes than Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.25% of users gave Kilroy Realty an outperform vote while only 31.91% of users gave Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. an outperform vote.
Kilroy Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.. Kilroy Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phillips Edison & Company, Inc., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Kilroy Realty pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. pays out 254.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kilroy Realty pays out 124.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kilroy Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kilroy Realty has a net margin of 18.43% compared to Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s net margin of 9.33%. Kilroy Realty's return on equity of 3.63% beat Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s return on equity.
In the previous week, Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. and Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. both had 3 articles in the media. Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Kilroy Realty's score of 1.14 indicating that Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kilroy Realty has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Kilroy Realty beats Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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