CUBE vs. OHI, RHP, HR, SBRA, EPR, NHI, MPW, VTR, EXR, and BXP
Should you be buying CubeSmart stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CubeSmart include Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Ventas (VTR), Extra Space Storage (EXR), and Boston Properties (BXP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE:OHI) and CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, CubeSmart had 6 more articles in the media than Omega Healthcare Investors. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for CubeSmart and 3 mentions for Omega Healthcare Investors. CubeSmart's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Omega Healthcare Investors' score of 1.15 indicating that Omega Healthcare Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Omega Healthcare Investors currently has a consensus target price of $33.63, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. CubeSmart has a consensus target price of $46.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.42%. Given CubeSmart's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Omega Healthcare Investors is more favorable than CubeSmart.
Omega Healthcare Investors received 6 more outperform votes than CubeSmart when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.78% of users gave CubeSmart an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Omega Healthcare Investors an outperform vote.
CubeSmart has higher revenue and earnings than Omega Healthcare Investors. CubeSmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Omega Healthcare Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Omega Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CubeSmart has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
65.3% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of CubeSmart shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of CubeSmart shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Omega Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. CubeSmart pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Omega Healthcare Investors pays out 241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CubeSmart pays out 113.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CubeSmart has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
CubeSmart has a net margin of 38.64% compared to CubeSmart's net margin of 28.07%. Omega Healthcare Investors' return on equity of 14.48% beat CubeSmart's return on equity.
Summary
CubeSmart beats Omega Healthcare Investors on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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