PK vs. SHO, XHR, VCTR, WD, ABCB, JOE, MAC, SLG, HHH, and TCN
Should you be buying Park Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Hotels & Resorts include Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Victory Capital (VCTR), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), St. Joe (JOE), Macerich (MAC), SL Green Realty (SLG), Howard Hughes (HHH), and Tricon Residential (TCN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership and valuation.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park Hotels & Resorts. Sunstone Hotel Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays out 227.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Park Hotels & Resorts had 8 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Park Hotels & Resorts and 2 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Park Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.62 indicating that Sunstone Hotel Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.7% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Park Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.31%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.25%. Given Park Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Park Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 254 more outperform votes than Park Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 54.75% of users gave Park Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Park Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 3.42%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 10.75% beat Park Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Park Hotels & Resorts on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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