How to buy Taubman Centers stock | $42.91

Taubman Centers, Inc is a reit-retail business based in the US. Taubman Centers shares (TCO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Taubman Centers employs 420 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$585.7 million.

How to buy shares in Taubman Centers

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Taubman Centers. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TCO. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Taubman Centers reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$42.91, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Taubman Centers, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Taubman Centers. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Taubman Centers share price

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Taubman Centers shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-01.

Latest market close	USD$42.91
52-week range	USD$25.8654 - USD$52.5292
50-day moving average	USD$37.036
200-day moving average	USD$37.6198
Wall St. target price	USD$45.22
PE ratio	13.3594
Dividend yield	USD$2.7 (6.13%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$2.746

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Taubman Centers price performance over time

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Is Taubman Centers under- or over-valued?

Valuing Taubman Centers stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Taubman Centers's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Taubman Centers's P/E ratio

Taubman Centers's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, Taubman Centers shares trade at around 13x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Taubman Centers's PEG ratio

Taubman Centers's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 7.91. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Taubman Centers's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Taubman Centers's EBITDA

Taubman Centers's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$324.9 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Taubman Centers's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Taubman Centers financials

Revenue TTM	USD$585.7 million
Operating margin TTM	18.92%
Gross profit TTM	USD$493.9 million
Return on assets TTM	1.52%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	-9.21%
Book value	$0.93
Market capitalisation	USD$2.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Taubman Centers shares

There are currently 6.6 million Taubman Centers shares held short by investors – that's known as Taubman Centers's "short interest". This figure is 17.5% down from 8.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Taubman Centers shares can be evaluated.

Taubman Centers's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Taubman Centers's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Taubman Centers shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Taubman Centers shares traded daily (recently around 918841.11111111). Taubman Centers's SIR currently stands at 7.2. In other words for every 100,000 Taubman Centers shares traded daily on the market, roughly 7200 shares are currently held short.

However Taubman Centers's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Taubman Centers shares, or, against the total number of tradable Taubman Centers shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Taubman Centers's short interest could be expressed as 0.11% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Taubman Centers shares in existence, roughly 110 shares are currently held short) or 0.1296% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Taubman Centers shares, roughly 130 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Taubman Centers.

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Taubman Centers share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 45.68% of net profits

Recently Taubman Centers has paid out, on average, around 45.68% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 6.13% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Taubman Centers shareholders could enjoy a 6.13% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Taubman Centers's case, that would currently equate to about $2.7 per share.

While Taubman Centers's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Taubman Centers may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Taubman Centers's most recent dividend payout was on 31 March 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 March 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Taubman Centers share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Taubman Centers's shares have ranged in value from as little as $25.8654 up to $52.5292. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Taubman Centers's is -0.1545. This would suggest that Taubman Centers's shares have been inversely-correlated to the average (for this exchange) – so when the broader market trended up or down, Taubman Centers has bucked the trend.

Taubman Centers overview

Taubman Centers is an S&P MidCap 400 Real Estate Investment Trust engaged in the ownership, management and/or leasing of 26 regional, super-regional and outlet malls in the U.S. and Asia. Taubman's U.S.-owned properties are the most productive in the publicly held U.S. mall industry. Founded in 1950, Taubman is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Taubman Asia, founded in 2005, is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Taubman Centers is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 3.118% of Taubman Centers shares are held by insiders and 106.17% by institutions.

• How many people work for Taubman Centers?

  Latest data suggests 420 work at Taubman Centers.

• When does the fiscal year end for Taubman Centers?

  Taubman Centers's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Taubman Centers based?

  Taubman Centers's address is: 200 East Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States, 48304

• What is Taubman Centers's ISIN number?

  Taubman Centers's international securities identification number is: US8766641034

• What is Taubman Centers's CUSIP number?

  Taubman Centers's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 876664103