BRX vs. COLD, STWD, STAG, FR, RHP, AGNC, HR, ADC, OHI, and AIRC
Should you be buying Brixmor Property Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brixmor Property Group include Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), STAG Industrial (STAG), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Agree Realty (ADC), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), and Apartment Income REIT (AIRC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) and Brixmor Property Group (NYSE:BRX) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Americold Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $30.33, indicating a potential upside of 19.47%. Brixmor Property Group has a consensus target price of $25.13, indicating a potential upside of 11.57%. Given Brixmor Property Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Americold Realty Trust is more favorable than Brixmor Property Group.
Americold Realty Trust has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brixmor Property Group has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brixmor Property Group has a net margin of 22.47% compared to Brixmor Property Group's net margin of -12.17%. Americold Realty Trust's return on equity of 9.84% beat Brixmor Property Group's return on equity.
98.1% of Americold Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Brixmor Property Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Americold Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Brixmor Property Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Americold Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Brixmor Property Group pays an annual dividend of $1.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Americold Realty Trust pays out -75.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brixmor Property Group pays out 117.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brixmor Property Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Brixmor Property Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Brixmor Property Group received 170 more outperform votes than Americold Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.75% of users gave Americold Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 60.22% of users gave Brixmor Property Group an outperform vote.
Brixmor Property Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Americold Realty Trust. Americold Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brixmor Property Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Americold Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Brixmor Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Americold Realty Trust and 8 mentions for Brixmor Property Group. Brixmor Property Group's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Americold Realty Trust's score of 0.78 indicating that Americold Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Brixmor Property Group beats Americold Realty Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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