Critical Review: Lineage (LINE) and Its Peers

Lineage (NASDAQ:LINE) is one of 289 publicly-traded companies in the “Real estate investment trusts” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Lineage to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Lineage and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lineage	$5.33 billion	N/A	-5.43
Lineage Competitors	$962.66 million	$122.50 million	21.39

Lineage has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. Lineage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Lineage and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lineage	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lineage Competitors	-6.12%	-1.61%	1.09%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Lineage and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lineage	0	5	11	1	2.76
Lineage Competitors	4139	14530	14457	376	2.33

Lineage currently has a consensus target price of $93.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.88%. As a group, “Real estate investment trusts” companies have a potential upside of 3.41%. Given Lineage’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lineage is more favorable than its competitors.

Dividends

Lineage pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Lineage pays out -11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Real estate investment trusts” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.2% and pay out -8.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

3.3% of Lineage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of shares of all “Real estate investment trusts” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Lineage shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of shares of all “Real estate investment trusts” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Lineage beats its competitors on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Lineage

Lineage, Inc. is the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT with a network of over 480 strategically located facilities totaling over 84.1 million square feet and 3.0 billion cubic feet of capacity across countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Coupling end-to-end supply chain solutions and technology, Lineage partners with some of the world’s largest food and beverage producers, retailers, and distributors to help increase distribution efficiency, advance sustainability, minimize supply chain waste, and, most importantly, feed the world.