CIO vs. ONL, BHR, MITT, FSP, PINE, MDV, GPMT, LFT, NREF, and ACR
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include Orion Office REIT (ONL), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Modiv Industrial (MDV), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), and ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and Orion Office REIT (NYSE:ONL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
67.5% of City Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Orion Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Orion Office REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
City Office REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orion Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orion Office REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City Office REIT received 284 more outperform votes than Orion Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Orion Office REIT an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, City Office REIT had 4 more articles in the media than Orion Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for City Office REIT and 0 mentions for Orion Office REIT. Orion Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.17 indicating that Orion Office REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
City Office REIT has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Office REIT has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
City Office REIT currently has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.84%. Given City Office REIT's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe City Office REIT is more favorable than Orion Office REIT.
City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Orion Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. City Office REIT pays out -160.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orion Office REIT pays out -39.2% 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.
City Office REIT has a net margin of -1.50% compared to Orion Office REIT's net margin of -29.38%. City Office REIT's return on equity of -0.40% beat Orion Office REIT's return on equity.
Summary
City Office REIT beats Orion Office REIT on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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