GTY vs. KRG, MAC, SKT, AKR, ROIC, ALX, BFS, SPG, O, and KIM
Should you be buying Getty Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Getty Realty include Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Alexander's (ALX), Saul Centers (BFS), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), and Kimco Realty (KIM). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) and Getty Realty (NYSE:GTY) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Kite Realty Group Trust has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Getty Realty has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kite Realty Group Trust currently has a consensus target price of $26.40, indicating a potential upside of 26.56%. Getty Realty has a consensus target price of $31.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.44%. Given Getty Realty's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Kite Realty Group Trust is more favorable than Getty Realty.
Kite Realty Group Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Getty Realty pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Kite Realty Group Trust pays out 384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Getty Realty pays out 153.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kite Realty Group Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Getty Realty has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Getty Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Getty Realty has a net margin of 32.74% compared to Getty Realty's net margin of 6.83%. Kite Realty Group Trust's return on equity of 6.80% beat Getty Realty's return on equity.
Kite Realty Group Trust received 18 more outperform votes than Getty Realty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.01% of users gave Getty Realty an outperform vote while only 55.66% of users gave Kite Realty Group Trust an outperform vote.
90.8% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Getty Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Kite Realty Group Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Getty Realty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kite Realty Group Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Getty Realty. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kite Realty Group Trust and 2 mentions for Getty Realty. Getty Realty's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Kite Realty Group Trust's score of 0.33 indicating that Kite Realty Group Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Getty Realty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kite Realty Group Trust. Getty Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kite Realty Group Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Getty Realty beats Kite Realty Group Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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