CXW vs. HR, RHP, RYN, PCH, SBRA, MPW, EPR, NHI, SHO, and GEO
Should you be buying CoreCivic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CoreCivic include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Rayonier (RYN), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), 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). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) and Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Healthcare Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than CoreCivic. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust and 4 mentions for CoreCivic. Healthcare Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat CoreCivic's score of 0.99 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CoreCivic currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.22%. Healthcare Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $17.30, indicating a potential upside of 4.22%. Given CoreCivic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CoreCivic is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of CoreCivic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CoreCivic has a net margin of 3.34% compared to Healthcare Realty Trust's net margin of -37.53%. CoreCivic's return on equity of 5.74% beat Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity.
CoreCivic received 53 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.10% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 51.15% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
CoreCivic has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CoreCivic beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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