CUZ Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. Regarding Cousins Properties Inc, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 11.5%. Digging deeper, the aspects of Cousins Properties Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• In comparison to stocks we observe that provide shareholders with a dividend, CUZ offers a dividend yield in the top 25.36% of stocks in our set.
• If we compare the valuation opportunity a dividend discount model provides relative to other dividend stocks in the Real Estate sector, Cousins Properties Inc's expected return of -11.5% is higher than only 23.2% of its fellow sector mates.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, CUZ has a discount rate lower than only 23.2% of them (a lower discount rate is associated with lower risk).
• Beta tells us how volatile a stock's price is relative to the broader equity index; as for CUZ, approximately only 25% of US-listed dividend issuers had a higher beta, and thus may have greater price volatility.

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