BNL vs. NHI, HIW, CDP, SITC, NSA, HASI, SKT, BXMT, LXP, and EPR
Should you be buying Broadstone Net Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadstone Net Lease include National Health Investors (NHI), Highwoods Properties (HIW), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), SITE Centers (SITC), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), Tanger (SKT), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), and EPR Properties (EPR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Broadstone Net Lease (NYSE:BNL) and National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Broadstone Net Lease has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Health Investors has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Health Investors received 327 more outperform votes than Broadstone Net Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.22% of users gave National Health Investors an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Broadstone Net Lease an outperform vote.
Broadstone Net Lease has a net margin of 42.23% compared to National Health Investors' net margin of 41.40%. National Health Investors' return on equity of 10.38% beat Broadstone Net Lease's return on equity.
Broadstone Net Lease presently has a consensus target price of $16.75, suggesting a potential upside of 9.87%. National Health Investors has a consensus target price of $60.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.34%. Given Broadstone Net Lease's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Broadstone Net Lease is more favorable than National Health Investors.
In the previous week, National Health Investors had 10 more articles in the media than Broadstone Net Lease. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for National Health Investors and 4 mentions for Broadstone Net Lease. Broadstone Net Lease's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat National Health Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Broadstone Net Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Broadstone Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. National Health Investors pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Broadstone Net Lease pays out 118.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Health Investors pays out 118.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Broadstone Net Lease has higher revenue and earnings than National Health Investors. Broadstone Net Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Health Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.1% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of National Health Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of National Health Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
National Health Investors beats Broadstone Net Lease on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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