CHCT vs. INN, TRTX, KREF, WSR, DX, BRSP, NYMT, BDN, GMRE, and DHC
Should you be buying Community Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Healthcare Trust include Summit Hotel Properties (INN), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Dynex Capital (DX), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), and Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Community Healthcare Trust has a net margin of 15.91% compared to Summit Hotel Properties' net margin of -1.04%. Community Healthcare Trust's return on equity of 3.57% beat Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, Summit Hotel Properties had 1 more articles in the media than Community Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties and 5 mentions for Community Healthcare Trust. Community Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Summit Hotel Properties' score of 0.18 indicating that Community Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Community Healthcare Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summit Hotel Properties received 111 more outperform votes than Community Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 63.01% of users gave Community Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 287.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Community Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.42%. Given Community Healthcare Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
Summary
Community Healthcare Trust beats Summit Hotel Properties on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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