UNIT vs. XHR, ESRT, NTST, DEA, GNL, ALX, IVT, PEB, PGRE, and RWT
Should you be buying Uniti Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Uniti Group include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), NETSTREIT (NTST), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Global Net Lease (GNL), Alexander's (ALX), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), Paramount Group (PGRE), and Redwood Trust (RWT).
Uniti Group (NASDAQ:UNIT) and Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Uniti Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Uniti Group pays out 1,000.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays out 252.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
87.5% of Uniti Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Uniti Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Uniti Group currently has a consensus target price of $6.25, indicating a potential upside of 61.50%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a consensus target price of $15.70, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Uniti Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Uniti Group is more favorable than Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
In the previous week, Uniti Group had 8 more articles in the media than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Uniti Group and 3 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Uniti Group's score of 0.12 indicating that Xenia Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of 2.09% compared to Uniti Group's net margin of 1.43%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 1.58% beat Uniti Group's return on equity.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Uniti Group. Uniti Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Uniti Group received 133 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Uniti Group an outperform vote while only 57.36% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Uniti Group has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Xenia Hotels & Resorts beats Uniti Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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