DHC vs. INN, UHT, CLDT, SVC, ALEX, LADR, LTC, RLJ, CXW, and AKR
Should you be buying Diversified Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Healthcare Trust include Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Ladder Capital (LADR), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), CoreCivic (CXW), and Acadia Realty Trust (AKR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diversified Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 89.87%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Diversified Healthcare Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Summit Hotel Properties. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust and 0 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Summit Hotel Properties' score of -0.59 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.04% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -22.80%. Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity of -0.56% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% 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. Summit Hotel Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summit Hotel Properties received 129 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
Summit Hotel Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Summit Hotel Properties beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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