PK vs. SHO, XHR, SBRA, HHH, WD, JOE, ASB, TCN, ABCB, and AX
Should you be buying Park Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Hotels & Resorts include Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Howard Hughes (HHH), Walker & Dunlop (WD), St. Joe (JOE), Associated Banc (ASB), Tricon Residential (TCN), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), and Axos Financial (AX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Park Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 3.42%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 10.75% beat Park Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 254 more outperform votes than Park Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 54.75% of users gave Park Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays out 227.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park Hotels & Resorts. Sunstone Hotel Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Park Hotels & Resorts had 4 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Park Hotels & Resorts and 2 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Park Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 0.18 indicating that Park Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.7% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Park Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $17.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.16%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.85%. Given Park Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Park Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Summary
Park Hotels & Resorts and Sunstone Hotel Investors tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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