Wells Fargo Downgrades EastGroup Properties (EGP) to Market Perform - InvestingChannel

Wells Fargo Downgrades EastGroup Properties (EGP) to Market Perform

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Rating Summary:

1 Buy, 8 Hold, 1 Sell

Rating Trend: Up

Today’s Overall Ratings:

Up: 21 | Down: 42 | New: 7

Wells Fargo downgraded EastGroup Properties (NYSE: EGP) from Outperform to Market Perform and maintained a valuation range of $53-$56.50.

The firm comments, “EGP trades at 12% premium to our spot NAV estimate, and while we believe a P/NAV premium is appropriate for EGP given its strong development pipeline and solid balance sheet, we don’t believe a growing P/NAV premium in 2013 is likely. We expect ssNOI growth will be modest in 2013 (flat to +1.0%). We look for underlying earnings growth from the development pipeline and potentially acquisitions, but we don’t believe outside value creation potential will be enough to drive outperformance during the year.”

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Shares of EastGroup Properties closed at $54.59 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $44.02-$56.44.

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