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Don't Buy Sun Communities Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

More and more people are talking about Sun Communities over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust stock at a price of $114.72? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

  • Sun Communities has moved -20.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.0%

  • SUI has an average analyst rating of buy and is -15.93% away from its mean target price of $136.46 per share

  • Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.81

  • Sun Communities has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 63.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97

  • Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.65 and its forward P/E ratio is 43.3

  • The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.84 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95

  • Sun Communities is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.81 and an average P/B of 2.24

  • SUI has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -0.7% and gross profit margins of 0.5%

  • The company has a free cash flow of $407.66 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter

  • Established in 1975, Sun Communities, Inc. became a publicly owned corporation in December 1993. The Company is a fully integrated REIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: SUI. As of September 30, 2023, the Company owned, operated, or had an interest in a portfolio of 670 developed MH, RV and Marina properties comprising approximately 180,170 developed sites and approximately 48,030 wet slips and dry storage spaces in the U.S., the UK and Canada.

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