PLD vs. EGP, FR, STAG, TRNO, AMT, EQIX, WELL, DLR, SPG, and PSA
Should you be buying Prologis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prologis include EastGroup Properties (EGP), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), STAG Industrial (STAG), Terreno Realty (TRNO), American Tower (AMT), Equinix (EQIX), Welltower (WELL), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Simon Property Group (SPG), and Public Storage (PSA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prologis vs.
Prologis (NYSE:PLD) and EastGroup Properties (NYSE:EGP) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Prologis presently has a consensus target price of $128.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.49%. EastGroup Properties has a consensus target price of $190.88, suggesting a potential upside of 18.30%. Given EastGroup Properties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EastGroup Properties is more favorable than Prologis.
Prologis pays an annual dividend of $3.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. EastGroup Properties pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Prologis pays out 116.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. EastGroup Properties 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. Prologis has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Prologis is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Prologis has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EastGroup Properties has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Prologis had 26 more articles in the media than EastGroup Properties. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Prologis and 11 mentions for EastGroup Properties. Prologis' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat EastGroup Properties' score of 0.58 indicating that Prologis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prologis has higher revenue and earnings than EastGroup Properties. Prologis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EastGroup Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prologis has a net margin of 39.08% compared to EastGroup Properties' net margin of 37.19%. EastGroup Properties' return on equity of 8.56% beat Prologis' return on equity.
93.5% of Prologis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of EastGroup Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Prologis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of EastGroup Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Prologis received 489 more outperform votes than EastGroup Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.04% of users gave Prologis an outperform vote while only 57.83% of users gave EastGroup Properties an outperform vote.
Summary
Prologis beats EastGroup Properties on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PLD) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
