PEB vs. CXW, DRH, RLJ, LTC, SVC, MPW, NHI, INN, DHC, and UHT
Should you be buying Pebblebrook Hotel Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust include CoreCivic (CXW), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), National Health Investors (NHI), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) and CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
CoreCivic received 20 more outperform votes than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.10% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 56.36% of users gave Pebblebrook Hotel Trust an outperform vote.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust presently has a consensus target price of $14.69, suggesting a potential upside of 2.32%. CoreCivic has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.66%. Given CoreCivic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CoreCivic is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
CoreCivic has a net margin of 3.56% compared to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's net margin of -5.84%. CoreCivic's return on equity of 4.70% beat Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity.
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of CoreCivic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CoreCivic has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CoreCivic had 15 more articles in the media than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CoreCivic and 0 mentions for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat CoreCivic's score of 0.45 indicating that Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. CoreCivic pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CoreCivic pays out 298.3% 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
CoreCivic beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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