SHO vs. PK, PPBI, NYCB, FFBC, LGIH, PRK, INDB, SFNC, EQC, and BANC
Should you be buying Sunstone Hotel Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunstone Hotel Investors include Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), LGI Homes (LGIH), Park National (PRK), Independent Bank (INDB), Simmons First National (SFNC), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), and Banc of California (BANC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.95% compared to Park Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 3.42%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 11.32% beat Park Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Park Hotels & Resorts had 19 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Park Hotels & Resorts and 2 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Park Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Park Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 255 more outperform votes than Park Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Park Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Sunstone Hotel Investors presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.86%. Park Hotels & Resorts has a consensus price target of $17.27, indicating a potential upside of 7.35%. Given Park Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Park Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors and Park Hotels & Resorts tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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