RHP vs. HR, OHI, CUBE, EPR, MPW, NHI, DRH, PEB, RLJ, and CXW
Should you be buying Ryman Hospitality Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryman Hospitality Properties include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), CubeSmart (CUBE), EPR Properties (EPR), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), National Health Investors (NHI), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), and CoreCivic (CXW). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) and Ryman Hospitality Properties (NYSE:RHP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
94.5% of Ryman Hospitality Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Ryman Hospitality Properties 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.
Ryman Hospitality Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryman Hospitality Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $17.20, suggesting a potential upside of 20.45%. Ryman Hospitality Properties has a consensus price target of $118.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.22%. Given Ryman Hospitality Properties' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Healthcare Realty Trust is more favorable than Ryman Hospitality Properties.
Ryman Hospitality Properties has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Ryman Hospitality Properties' net margin of -20.71%. Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity of 75.64% beat Ryman Hospitality Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, Healthcare Realty Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Ryman Hospitality Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust and 6 mentions for Ryman Hospitality Properties. Ryman Hospitality Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Healthcare Realty Trust's score of 0.95 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryman Hospitality Properties received 11 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.67% of users gave Ryman Hospitality Properties an outperform vote while only 51.38% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Ryman Hospitality Properties pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -167.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryman Hospitality Properties pays out 84.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ryman Hospitality Properties has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryman Hospitality Properties has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ryman Hospitality Properties beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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