VICI vs. EQIX, WELL, SPG, PSA, O, DLR, EXR, AVB, EQR, and IRM
Should you be buying VICI Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VICI Properties include Equinix (EQIX), Welltower (WELL), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), Realty Income (O), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Extra Space Storage (EXR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), and Iron Mountain (IRM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) and VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Equinix received 793 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.91% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 70.13% compared to VICI Properties' net margin of 11.32%. Equinix's return on equity of 10.33% beat VICI Properties' return on equity.
Equinix presently has a consensus price target of $872.69, suggesting a potential upside of 13.93%. VICI Properties has a consensus price target of $34.18, suggesting a potential upside of 21.82%. Given Equinix's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Equinix.
In the previous week, Equinix had 10 more articles in the media than VICI Properties. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Equinix and 17 mentions for VICI Properties. Equinix's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat VICI Properties' score of 0.61 indicating that VICI Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equinix pays an annual dividend of $17.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Equinix pays out 170.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VICI Properties pays out 65.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equinix has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and VICI Properties has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Equinix has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VICI Properties has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.9% of Equinix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of VICI Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Equinix shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
VICI Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equinix. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Equinix on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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