SITC vs. HASI, BNL, NHI, HIW, CDP, SKT, BXMT, NSA, EPR, and GRP.U
Should you be buying SITE Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SITE Centers include Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), National Health Investors (NHI), Highwoods Properties (HIW), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), Tanger (SKT), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), EPR Properties (EPR), and Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE:HASI) and SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
SITE Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SITE Centers has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.1% of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a net margin of 69.48% compared to Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's net margin of 43.36%. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's return on equity of 11.83% beat SITE Centers' return on equity.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital pays out 80.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital presently has a consensus price target of $34.36, suggesting a potential upside of 7.79%. SITE Centers has a consensus price target of $14.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.63%. Given SITE Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital is more favorable than SITE Centers.
In the previous week, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital had 9 more articles in the media than SITE Centers. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital and 2 mentions for SITE Centers. Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat SITE Centers' score of 0.82 indicating that SITE Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital received 388 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.23% of users gave Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
Summary
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital beats SITE Centers on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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