INN vs. SHO, GEO, DRH, CXW, PEB, RLJ, LTC, SVC, DHC, and UHT
Should you be buying Summit Hotel Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Hotel Properties include Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), The GEO Group (GEO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) are both 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.
Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% 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. Sunstone Hotel Investors has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Summit Hotel Properties has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Summit Hotel Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunstone Hotel Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 139 more outperform votes than Summit Hotel Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 59.93% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote.
99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties 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.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Sunstone Hotel Investors' net margin of -1.04%. Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity of 10.75% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors currently has a consensus target price of $10.71, suggesting a potential upside of 4.73%. Given Summit Hotel Properties' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sunstone Hotel Investors is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 5 more articles in the media than Summit Hotel Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 4 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Summit Hotel Properties' score of 1.03 indicating that Summit Hotel Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Summit Hotel Properties on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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