REG vs. VER, CONE, LAMR, STOR, AMH, CCI, EXR, VICI, AVB, and EQR
Should you be buying Regency Centers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Regency Centers include VEREIT (VER), CyrusOne (CONE), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), STORE Capital (STOR), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Crown Castle (CCI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), VICI Properties (VICI), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), and Equity Residential (EQR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
VEREIT (NYSE:VER) and Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Regency Centers has higher revenue and earnings than VEREIT. VEREIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regency Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.4% of VEREIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Regency Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of VEREIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Regency Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
VEREIT pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Regency Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. VEREIT pays out 59.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Regency Centers pays out 130.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Regency Centers has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Regency Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Regency Centers has a consensus price target of $70.09, suggesting a potential upside of 19.43%. Given VEREIT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Regency Centers is more favorable than VEREIT.
In the previous week, Regency Centers had 5 more articles in the media than VEREIT. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Regency Centers and 1 mentions for VEREIT. VEREIT's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Regency Centers' score of 0.09 indicating that Regency Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Regency Centers has a net margin of 27.31% compared to Regency Centers' net margin of 22.20%. VEREIT's return on equity of 5.52% beat Regency Centers' return on equity.
VEREIT received 436 more outperform votes than Regency Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.78% of users gave VEREIT an outperform vote while only 38.16% of users gave Regency Centers an outperform vote.
VEREIT has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regency Centers has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Regency Centers beats VEREIT on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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