CBL vs. AKR, ROIC, GTY, ALX, BFS, SPG, O, KIM, FRT, and NNN
Should you be buying CBL & Associates Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CBL & Associates Properties include Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), and NNN REIT (NNN). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) and CBL & Associates Properties (NYSE:CBL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
Acadia Realty Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CBL & Associates Properties. Acadia Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CBL & Associates Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acadia Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.31%. Given CBL & Associates Properties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Acadia Realty Trust is more favorable than CBL & Associates Properties.
Acadia Realty Trust has a net margin of 2.38% compared to Acadia Realty Trust's net margin of 0.82%. Acadia Realty Trust's return on equity of 1.33% beat CBL & Associates Properties' return on equity.
Acadia Realty Trust has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CBL & Associates Properties has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.7% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of CBL & Associates Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Acadia Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of CBL & Associates Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CBL & Associates Properties received 34 more outperform votes than Acadia Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.36% of users gave CBL & Associates Properties an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Acadia Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Acadia Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. CBL & Associates Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Acadia Realty Trust pays out 900.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CBL & Associates Properties pays out 1,600.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CBL & Associates Properties has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. CBL & Associates Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Acadia Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than CBL & Associates Properties. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Acadia Realty Trust and 0 mentions for CBL & Associates Properties. CBL & Associates Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Acadia Realty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Acadia Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Acadia Realty Trust and CBL & Associates Properties tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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