Assessing Simon Property – Look Beyond Technicals to Fundamentals

By Chris Stiles • Friday, March 14 15:09 • Permanent Link

Simon Property logged a 0.5% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $160.2 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 2.0%. SPG's trading volume is 850,354 compared to the stock's average volume of 1,491,228.

Simon Property trades -16.08% away from its average analyst target price of $190.89 per share. The 18 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $168.0 to $220.0, and on average have given Simon Property a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying SPG should be aware of the facts below:

Simon Property's current price is 319.8% above its Graham number of $38.16, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Simon Property has moved 5.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 7.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 7.26, Simon Property has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 22.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
SPG has a forward P/E ratio of 23.6 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $6.78 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 18.02 compared to its sector average of 2.15
Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT).
Based in Indianapolis, the company has 2,600 full time employees and a market cap of $60.4 Billion. Simon Property currently returns an annual dividend yield of 5.1%.

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