Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS – Get Free Report) and Firm Capital Property Trust (OTCMKTS:FRMUF – Get Free Report) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares Saul Centers and Firm Capital Property Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Saul Centers | 20.49% | 16.65% | 2.71% |
| Firm Capital Property Trust | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Saul Centers and Firm Capital Property Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Saul Centers | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Firm Capital Property Trust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Saul Centers currently has a consensus target price of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.77%. Given Saul Centers’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Firm Capital Property Trust.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Saul Centers and Firm Capital Property Trust’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Saul Centers | $264.08 million | 3.53 | $52.69 million | $1.73 | 22.50 |
| Firm Capital Property Trust | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Saul Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Firm Capital Property Trust.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Saul Centers beats Firm Capital Property Trust on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Saul Centers
Saul Centers is a self-managed, self-administered equity REIT headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Saul Centers currently operates and manages a real estate portfolio comprised of 61 properties that includes (a) 57 community and neighborhood Shopping Centers and Mixed-Use properties with approximately 9.8 million square feet of leasable area and (b) four land and development properties. Over 85% of the Company’s property operating income is generated from properties in the metropolitan Washington, DC/Baltimore area.
About Firm Capital Property Trust
Firm Capital Property Trust is focused on creating long-term value for Unitholders, through capital preservation and disciplined investing to achieve stable distributable income. In partnership with management and industry leaders. The Trust’s plan is to own as well as to co-own a diversified property portfolio of multi-residential, flex industrial, and net lease convenience retail. In addition to stand alone accretive acquisitions, the Trust will make joint acquisitions with strong financial partners and acquisitions of partial interests from existing ownership groups, in a manner that provides liquidity to those selling owners and professional management for those remaining as partners. Firm Capital Realty Partners Inc., through a structure focused on an alignment of interests with the Trust sources, syndicates and property and asset manages investments on behalf of the Trust.
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