SHO vs. XHR, PK, FIHL, EQC, PLMR, HTH, FRME, UE, SPNT, and PTY
Should you be buying Sunstone Hotel Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunstone Hotel Investors include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Fidelis Insurance (FIHL), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), Palomar (PLMR), Hilltop (HTH), First Merchants (FRME), Urban Edge Properties (UE), SiriusPoint (SPNT), and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Sunstone Hotel Investors' net margin of 2.09%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 10.75% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.
In the previous week, Xenia Hotels & Resorts had 7 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and 2 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.00 indicating that Xenia Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $15.70, suggesting a potential upside of 6.88%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.86%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Xenia Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 234 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 57.36% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays out 252.6% 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 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Sunstone Hotel Investors has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. Sunstone Hotel Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Xenia Hotels & Resorts on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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