Financial Review: Firm Capital Property Trust (OTCMKTS:FRMUF) & Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS)

Firm Capital Property Trust (OTCMKTS:FRMUF) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Firm Capital Property Trust and Saul Centers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Firm Capital Property Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
Saul Centers	20.49%	16.65%	2.71%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Firm Capital Property Trust and Saul Centers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Firm Capital Property Trust	0	0	0	0	N/A
Saul Centers	0	0	1	0	3.00

Saul Centers has a consensus target price of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.60%. Given Saul Centers’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Firm Capital Property Trust.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Firm Capital Property Trust and Saul Centers’ top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firm Capital Property Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Saul Centers	$264.08 million	3.54	$52.69 million	$1.73	22.53

Saul Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Firm Capital Property Trust.

Summary

Saul Centers beats Firm Capital Property Trust on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.