2-Star Dividend Stocks Poised to Plunge: General Growth?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, shopping mall owner General Growth Properties (NYS: GGP) has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at General Growth and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
General Growth facts
Headquarters (founded) | Chicago (1986) |
Market Cap | $17.9 billion |
Industry | Retail REIT |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $2.8 billion |
Management | CEO Sandeep Mathran |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | (13.7%) |
Cash / Debt | $638.0 million / $16.3 billion |
Dividend Yield | 2.3% |
Competitors | CBL & Associates |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 27% of the 546 members who have rated General Growth believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, AygHead, succinctly summed up the underperform case for our community:
While [General Growth] runs some great retail properties, retailing values in general are on a long term secular decline owing to a shift to online retailers such as Amazon (NAS: AMZN) . So, [General Growth] properties may do OK, but rents they can charge will lag to keep competitive. This will mute future / long term stock appreciation.
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