SVC vs. BDN, CIM, PGRE, WRE, SBRA, MPW, EPR, NHI, SHO, and GEO
Should you be buying Service Properties Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Properties Trust include Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Chimera Investment (CIM), Paramount Group (PGRE), Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRE), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), EPR Properties (EPR), National Health Investors (NHI), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), and The GEO Group (GEO).
Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) and Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Brandywine Realty Trust received 80 more outperform votes than Service Properties Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.61% of users gave Brandywine Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 51.05% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote.
77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.0%. Brandywine Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Service Properties Trust pays out -95.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brandywine Realty Trust pays out -49.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Service Properties Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Brandywine Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Service Properties Trust and 2 mentions for Brandywine Realty Trust. Brandywine Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Service Properties Trust's score of 0.86 indicating that Brandywine Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Service Properties Trust presently has a consensus price target of $7.58, indicating a potential upside of 51.36%. Brandywine Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $5.63, indicating a potential upside of 23.90%. Given Service Properties Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Brandywine Realty Trust.
Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.18, suggesting that its stock price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brandywine Realty Trust has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Service Properties Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Brandywine Realty Trust. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brandywine Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Properties Trust has a net margin of -7.29% compared to Brandywine Realty Trust's net margin of -40.61%. Service Properties Trust's return on equity of -11.01% beat Brandywine Realty Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Service Properties Trust beats Brandywine Realty Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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