NSA vs. CDP, HIW, NHI, BNL, LXP, SITC, MPW, ABR, HASI, and OUT
Should you be buying National Storage Affiliates Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Storage Affiliates Trust include COPT Defense Properties (CDP), Highwoods Properties (HIW), National Health Investors (NHI), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), SITE Centers (SITC), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), and OUTFRONT Media (OUT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE:NSA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
COPT Defense Properties currently has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.16%. National Storage Affiliates Trust has a consensus target price of $36.44, indicating a potential downside of 4.32%. Given National Storage Affiliates Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe COPT Defense Properties is more favorable than National Storage Affiliates Trust.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has a net margin of 22.07% compared to National Storage Affiliates Trust's net margin of -16.83%. COPT Defense Properties' return on equity of 10.30% beat National Storage Affiliates Trust's return on equity.
National Storage Affiliates Trust received 265 more outperform votes than COPT Defense Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave COPT Defense Properties an outperform vote while only 56.34% of users gave National Storage Affiliates Trust an outperform vote.
COPT Defense Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. COPT Defense Properties pays out -109.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays out 117.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Storage Affiliates Trust has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. National Storage Affiliates Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
COPT Defense Properties has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Storage Affiliates Trust has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
100.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of COPT Defense Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has higher revenue and earnings than COPT Defense Properties. COPT Defense Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Storage Affiliates Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, National Storage Affiliates Trust had 8 more articles in the media than COPT Defense Properties. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for National Storage Affiliates Trust and 0 mentions for COPT Defense Properties. COPT Defense Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat National Storage Affiliates Trust's score of 1.00 indicating that National Storage Affiliates Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
National Storage Affiliates Trust beats COPT Defense Properties on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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