Sino Land (OTCMKTS:SNLAY – Get Rating) and WP Carey (NYSE:WPC – Get Rating) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Earnings & Valuations

This table compares Sino Land and WP Carey’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Sino Land has higher revenue and earnings than WP Carey.

Volatility & Risk

Sino Land has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WP Carey has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Sino Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of WP Carey shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of WP Carey shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Sino Land and WP Carey’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Sino Land and WP Carey, as provided by MarketBeat.

WP Carey has a consensus target price of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.44%. Given WP Carey’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WP Carey is more favorable than Sino Land.

Dividends

Sino Land pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. WP Carey pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. WP Carey pays out 168.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payments in the future. WP Carey has raised its dividend for 24 consecutive years.

Summary

WP Carey beats Sino Land on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sino Land

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Sino Land Company Limited, an investment holding company, invests in, develops, manages, and trades in properties. It operates through six segments: Property Sales, Property Rental, Property Management and Other Services, Hotel Operations, Investments in Securities, and Financing. The company’s property portfolio includes office, industrial and residential buildings, as well as shopping malls, car parks and hotels. It also provides cleaning, building construction and management, financing, administration, security, mortgage loan financing, secretarial, management, project management, investment securities, living, consultancy, and deposit placing services, as well as operating hotels. As of June 30, 2022, the company had a land bank of approximately 20.4 million square feet of attributable floor area in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. The company was incorporated in 1971 and is based in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Sino Land Company Limited is a subsidiary of Tsim Sha Tsui Properties Limited.

About WP Carey

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WP Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $18 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally-critical commercial real estate that includes 1,215 net lease properties covering approximately 142 million square feet as of September 30, 2020. For nearly five decades, the company has invested in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail and self-storage properties subject to long-term net leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the US and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry.

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