SVC vs. INN, LTC, DHC, UHT, CLDT, CXW, RLJ, PEB, DRH, and FCPT
Should you be buying Service Properties Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Properties Trust include Summit Hotel Properties (INN), LTC Properties (LTC), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), CoreCivic (CXW), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), and Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) and Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Summit Hotel Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Service Properties Trust. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Summit Hotel Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.17, meaning that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.04% compared to Summit Hotel Properties' net margin of -1.75%. Service Properties Trust's return on equity of -0.56% beat Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, Service Properties Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Summit Hotel Properties. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Service Properties Trust and 6 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Service Properties Trust's score of 0.18 indicating that Service Properties Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Hotel Properties received 112 more outperform votes than Service Properties Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote.
Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Service Properties Trust pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Summit Hotel Properties has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Service Properties Trust has a consensus price target of $7.92, indicating a potential upside of 39.38%. Given Summit Hotel Properties' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
Summary
Summit Hotel Properties beats Service Properties Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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