VTR vs. WELL, PSA, EXR, WY, CUBE, OHI, RHP, HR, RYN, and PCH
Should you be buying Ventas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ventas include Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Rayonier (RYN), and PotlatchDeltic (PCH). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Welltower (NYSE:WELL) and Ventas (NYSE:VTR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Welltower has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ventas has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.8% of Welltower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Ventas shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Welltower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Ventas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Welltower currently has a consensus target price of $98.07, suggesting a potential downside of 5.53%. Ventas has a consensus target price of $51.46, suggesting a potential upside of 3.54%. Given Welltower's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ventas is more favorable than Welltower.
Welltower has a net margin of 6.37% compared to Welltower's net margin of -1.58%. Ventas' return on equity of 1.77% beat Welltower's return on equity.
Welltower received 176 more outperform votes than Ventas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.86% of users gave Welltower an outperform vote while only 56.37% of users gave Ventas an outperform vote.
Welltower pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Ventas pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Welltower pays out 301.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ventas pays out -947.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Welltower has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ventas is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Welltower has higher revenue and earnings than Ventas. Ventas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Welltower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Welltower had 8 more articles in the media than Ventas. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Welltower and 7 mentions for Ventas. Welltower's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Ventas' score of 0.75 indicating that Ventas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Welltower beats Ventas on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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