Analyzing Vicinity Centres (OTCMKTS:CNRAF) and Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM)

Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM) and Vicinity Centres (OTCMKTS:CNRAF) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Kimco Realty and Vicinity Centres”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kimco Realty	$2.14 billion	7.66	$584.74 million	$0.85	28.75
Vicinity Centres	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Kimco Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Vicinity Centres.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

89.2% of Kimco Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Kimco Realty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Kimco Realty and Vicinity Centres, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kimco Realty	0	9	7	1	2.53
Vicinity Centres	0	1	0	0	2.00

Kimco Realty presently has a consensus target price of $26.12, suggesting a potential upside of 6.86%. Given Kimco Realty’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kimco Realty is more favorable than Vicinity Centres.

Profitability

This table compares Kimco Realty and Vicinity Centres’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kimco Realty	27.76%	5.76%	3.07%
Vicinity Centres	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Kimco Realty beats Vicinity Centres on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Kimco Realty

Kimco Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) headquartered in New Hyde Park, N.Y., that is one of North America’s largest publicly traded owners and operators of open-air shopping centers. As of December 31, 2018, the company owned interests in 437 U.S. shopping centers comprising 76 million square feet of leasable space primarily concentrated in the top major metropolitan markets.

About Vicinity Centres

Vicinity Centres (Vicinity or the Group) is one of Australia's leading retail property groups with a fully integrated asset management platform, and $24 billion in retail assets under management across 60 shopping centres, making it the second largest listed manager of Australian retail property. The Group has a Direct Portfolio with interests in 59 shopping centres (including the DFO Brisbane business) and manages 30 assets on behalf of Strategic Partners, 29 of which are co-owned by the Group. Vicinity is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the code 'VCX' and has 24,000 securityholders. Vicinity also has European medium term notes listed on the ASX under the code 'VCD'.