MAC vs. KIM, FRT, NNN, ADC, KRG, SKT, AKR, ROIC, GTY, and ALX
Should you be buying Macerich stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macerich include Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), NNN REIT (NNN), Agree Realty (ADC), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Getty Realty (GTY), and Alexander's (ALX). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Macerich vs.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) and Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
87.4% of Macerich shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Kimco Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Macerich shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Kimco Realty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Macerich has a beta of 2.51, suggesting that its stock price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kimco Realty has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kimco Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Macerich. Kimco Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Macerich, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kimco Realty received 203 more outperform votes than Macerich when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.36% of users gave Kimco Realty an outperform vote while only 51.18% of users gave Macerich an outperform vote.
Macerich pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Kimco Realty pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Macerich pays out 174.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kimco Realty pays out 181.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Macerich currently has a consensus price target of $19.30, indicating a potential downside of 2.51%. Kimco Realty has a consensus price target of $24.84, indicating a potential upside of 11.18%. Given Kimco Realty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kimco Realty is more favorable than Macerich.
Kimco Realty has a net margin of 19.58% compared to Macerich's net margin of 8.98%. Kimco Realty's return on equity of 3.68% beat Macerich's return on equity.
In the previous week, Macerich had 6 more articles in the media than Kimco Realty. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Macerich and 3 mentions for Kimco Realty. Kimco Realty's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Macerich's score of 0.46 indicating that Kimco Realty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kimco Realty beats Macerich on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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