GNL vs. PEB, DRH, AKR, AHR, CXW, IVT, RLJ, ROIC, ESRT, and EQC
Should you be buying Global Net Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Net Lease include Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), CoreCivic (CXW), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), and Equity Commonwealth (EQC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Global Net Lease (NYSE:GNL) and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Global Net Lease has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
61.2% of Global Net Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Global Net Lease shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust received 168 more outperform votes than Global Net Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.36% of users gave Pebblebrook Hotel Trust an outperform vote while only 52.91% of users gave Global Net Lease an outperform vote.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Global Net Lease. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Net Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Global Net Lease. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and 2 mentions for Global Net Lease. Global Net Lease's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's score of 0.41 indicating that Global Net Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Global Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.2%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Global Net Lease pays out -60.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -3.9% 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. Global Net Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Global Net Lease presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.83%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a consensus target price of $14.69, indicating a potential upside of 5.82%. Given Global Net Lease's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Global Net Lease is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a net margin of -5.84% compared to Global Net Lease's net margin of -37.46%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity of -2.88% beat Global Net Lease's return on equity.
Summary
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust beats Global Net Lease on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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