XHR vs. SHO, PK, SKWD, PRG, CUBI, GTY, EFSC, RC, LTC, and ESRT
Should you be buying Xenia Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xenia Hotels & Resorts include Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), PROG (PRG), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Getty Realty (GTY), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Ready Capital (RC), LTC Properties (LTC), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 234 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.02% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 57.36% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Sunstone Hotel Investors currently has a consensus target price of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.34%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a consensus target price of $15.70, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Xenia Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 16 more articles in the media than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 0 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 0.20 indicating that Sunstone Hotel Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Xenia Hotels & Resorts has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Xenia Hotels & Resorts on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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