Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) vs. AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) Head-To-Head Analysis

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) and Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for AGNC Investment and Brandywine Realty Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AGNC Investment	0	3	7	0	2.70
Brandywine Realty Trust	0	1	0	0	2.00

AGNC Investment currently has a consensus price target of $10.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.38%. Brandywine Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.20%. Given Brandywine Realty Trust’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brandywine Realty Trust is more favorable than AGNC Investment.

Profitability

This table compares AGNC Investment and Brandywine Realty Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AGNC Investment	29.26%	21.92%	2.00%
Brandywine Realty Trust	-38.46%	-16.40%	-5.33%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AGNC Investment and Brandywine Realty Trust”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AGNC Investment	$2.95 billion	3.17	$863.00 million	$0.97	10.87
Brandywine Realty Trust	$505.52 million	1.65	-$194.44 million	($1.14)	-4.25

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

Dividends

AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Brandywine Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. AGNC Investment pays out 148.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brandywine Realty Trust pays out -52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brandywine Realty Trust has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

AGNC Investment beats Brandywine Realty Trust on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AGNC Investment

AGNC Investment Corp., formerly American Capital Agency Corp., is a real estate investment trust. The Company invests in agency residential mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Its investments consist of residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by the United States Government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (collectively, GSEs). Its agency securities include agency residential mortgage-backed securities (Agency RMBS) and to-be-announced forward contracts (TBAs). Its Non-Agency Securities include credit risk transfer securities (CRT), non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (Non-Agency RMBS) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

About Brandywine Realty Trust

Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) is one of the largest, publicly traded, full-service, integrated real estate companies in the United States with a core focus in the Philadelphia and Austin markets. Organized as a real estate investment trust (REIT), we own, develop, lease and manage an urban, town center and transit-oriented portfolio comprising 160 properties and 22.6 million square feet as of September 30, 2023 which excludes assets held for sale. Our purpose is to shape, connect and inspire the world around us through our expertise, the relationships we foster, the communities in which we live and work, and the history we build together.