LXP vs. CUZ, AAT, VNO, MPW, ABR, OUT, NSA, CDP, HIW, and NHI
Should you be buying LXP Industrial Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LXP Industrial Trust include Cousins Properties (CUZ), American Assets Trust (AAT), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), Highwoods Properties (HIW), and National Health Investors (NHI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) and Cousins Properties (NYSE:CUZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
LXP Industrial Trust and Cousins Properties both received 269 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 56.51% of users gave Cousins Properties an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cousins Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cousins Properties has a net margin of 9.15% compared to LXP Industrial Trust's net margin of 5.52%. Cousins Properties' return on equity of 1.62% beat LXP Industrial Trust's return on equity.
Cousins Properties has higher revenue and earnings than LXP Industrial Trust. Cousins Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LXP Industrial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LXP Industrial Trust currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.01%. Cousins Properties has a consensus price target of $23.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.64%. Given LXP Industrial Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe LXP Industrial Trust is more favorable than Cousins Properties.
LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cousins Properties has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cousins Properties had 9 more articles in the media than LXP Industrial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cousins Properties and 2 mentions for LXP Industrial Trust. LXP Industrial Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Cousins Properties' score of 1.10 indicating that LXP Industrial Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Cousins Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. LXP Industrial Trust pays out 1,300.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cousins Properties pays out 261.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Cousins Properties beats LXP Industrial Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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