Financial Survey: FrontView REIT (NYSE:FVR) & Realty Income (NYSE:O)

Realty Income (NYSE:O) and FrontView REIT (NYSE:FVR) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of FrontView REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Realty Income has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FrontView REIT has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. FrontView REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Realty Income pays out 266.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FrontView REIT pays out -537.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Realty Income has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. Realty Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Realty Income and FrontView REIT, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Realty Income	1	8	7	1	2.47
FrontView REIT	1	3	7	2	2.77

Realty Income currently has a consensus price target of $67.11, suggesting a potential upside of 6.55%. FrontView REIT has a consensus price target of $21.83, suggesting a potential upside of 7.55%. Given FrontView REIT’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FrontView REIT is more favorable than Realty Income.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Realty Income and FrontView REIT”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Realty Income	$5.75 billion	10.22	$1.06 billion	$1.22	51.63
FrontView REIT	$67.11 million	6.85	-$3.83 million	($0.16)	-126.88

Realty Income has higher revenue and earnings than FrontView REIT. FrontView REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Realty Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Realty Income and FrontView REIT’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Realty Income	18.94%	2.80%	1.55%
FrontView REIT	-3.88%	-0.53%	-0.31%

Summary

Realty Income beats FrontView REIT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Realty Income

Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 15,450 real estate properties (including properties acquired in the Spirit merger in January 2024) primarily owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 644 consecutive monthly dividends on its shares of common stock throughout its 55-year operating history and increased the dividend 123 times since Realty Income’s public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).

About FrontView REIT

FrontView REIT specializes in real estate investing.