AHT vs. AMT, WELL, PSA, EXR, WY, VTR, CUBE, OHI, RHP, and HR
Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Ventas (VTR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
American Tower (NYSE:AMT) and Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
American Tower has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, American Tower had 11 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for American Tower and 1 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat American Tower's score of 1.00 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Tower currently has a consensus target price of $221.91, indicating a potential upside of 19.94%. Ashford Hospitality Trust has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 100.80%. Given American Tower's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than American Tower.
American Tower has a net margin of 18.42% compared to American Tower's net margin of -3.51%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 18.45% beat American Tower's return on equity.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Tower received 511 more outperform votes than Ashford Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
American Tower beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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