CTRE vs. SITC, RPAI, WRE, RLJ, TWO, SUI, DOC, AMH, UDR, and HST
Should you be buying CareTrust REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CareTrust REIT include SITE Centers (SITC), Retail Properties of America (RPAI), Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRE), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Sun Communities (SUI), Healthpeak Properties (DOC), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), UDR (UDR), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) and CareTrust REIT (NASDAQ:CTRE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CareTrust REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of CareTrust REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SITE Centers has higher revenue and earnings than CareTrust REIT. SITE Centers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CareTrust REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SITE Centers currently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.20%. CareTrust REIT has a consensus target price of $24.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.63%. Given CareTrust REIT's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe SITE Centers is more favorable than CareTrust REIT.
SITE Centers has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CareTrust REIT has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. CareTrust REIT pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CareTrust REIT pays out 223.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CareTrust REIT has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. CareTrust REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, CareTrust REIT had 7 more articles in the media than SITE Centers. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CareTrust REIT and 3 mentions for SITE Centers. SITE Centers' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat CareTrust REIT's score of 0.75 indicating that CareTrust REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CareTrust REIT received 394 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave CareTrust REIT an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
SITE Centers has a net margin of 43.36% compared to SITE Centers' net margin of 27.47%. CareTrust REIT's return on equity of 11.83% beat SITE Centers' return on equity.
Summary
SITE Centers beats CareTrust REIT on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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