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HIW vs PSA

Side-by-side comparison of Highwoods Properties Inc. (HIW) and Public Storage (PSA): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HIW and PSA operate in Real Estate Investment Trusts (Real Estate), so they compete in similar markets.
  • PSA is the larger of the two at $51.93B, about 17.8x HIW ($2.91B).
  • Over the past year, HIW is down 12.7% and PSA is down 4.4% - PSA leads by 8.3 points.
  • HIW has been more active in the news (8 items in the past 4 weeks vs 3 for PSA).
  • PSA has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 23 for HIW).
PerformanceHIW-12.69%PSA-4.41%
2025-06-02+0.00%2026-06-01
MetricHIWPSA
Company
Highwoods Properties Inc.
Public Storage
Price
$26.41+1.19%
$296.02-2.56%
Market cap
$2.91B
$51.93B
1M return
+8.64%
-2.17%
1Y return
-12.69%
-4.41%
Industry
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
1994
News (4w)
8
3
Recent ratings
23
25
HIW

Highwoods Properties Inc.

Highwoods Properties, Inc., headquartered in Raleigh, is a publicly-traded (NYSE:HIW) real estate investment trust (“REIT”) and a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index. Highwoods is a fully-integrated office REIT that owns, develops, acquires, leases and manages properties primarily in the best business districts (BBDs) of Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Richmond and Tampa.

PSA

Public Storage

Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500, is a REIT that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities. At September 30, 2020, we had: (i) interests in 2,504 self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 171 million net rentable square feet in the United States, (ii) an approximate 35% common equity interest in Shurgard Self Storage SA (Euronext Brussels:SHUR) which owned 239 self-storage facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately 13 million net rentable square feet operated under the “Shurgard” brand and (iii) an approximate 42% common equity interest in PS Business Parks, Inc. (NYSE:PSB) which owned and operated approximately 28 million rentable square feet of commercial space at September 30, 2020. Our headquarters are located in Glendale, California.