O vs. SPG, KIM, FRT, ADC, NNN, KRG, MAC, SKT, AKR, and ROIC
Should you be buying Realty Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Realty Income include Simon Property Group (SPG), Kimco Realty (KIM), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Agree Realty (ADC), NNN REIT (NNN), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Macerich (MAC), Tanger (SKT), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), and Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC). These companies are all part of the "retail reits" industry.
Realty Income vs.
Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) and Realty Income (NYSE:O) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Realty Income had 11 more articles in the media than Simon Property Group. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Realty Income and 32 mentions for Simon Property Group. Simon Property Group's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Realty Income's score of 0.90 indicating that Simon Property Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Simon Property Group has higher revenue and earnings than Realty Income. Simon Property Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Realty Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.0% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Simon Property Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Simon Property Group has a net margin of 41.49% compared to Realty Income's net margin of 17.57%. Simon Property Group's return on equity of 74.02% beat Realty Income's return on equity.
Simon Property Group has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Realty Income has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Simon Property Group presently has a consensus price target of $180.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.40%. Realty Income has a consensus price target of $62.04, suggesting a potential upside of 10.16%. Given Realty Income's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Simon Property Group.
Simon Property Group pays an annual dividend of $8.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Simon Property Group pays out 115.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Realty Income pays out 328.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Simon Property Group received 349 more outperform votes than Realty Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.62% of users gave Simon Property Group an outperform vote while only 63.70% of users gave Realty Income an outperform vote.
Summary
Simon Property Group beats Realty Income on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:O) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
