DHC vs. UHT, CLDT, INN, SVC, ALEX, LADR, LTC, RLJ, CXW, and GEO
Should you be buying Diversified Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Healthcare Trust include Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Ladder Capital (LADR), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), CoreCivic (CXW), and The GEO Group (GEO).
Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Realty Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Diversified Healthcare Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust and 0 mentions for Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Universal Health Realty Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a net margin of 16.66% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -20.82%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's return on equity of 7.88% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
Diversified Healthcare Trust received 95 more outperform votes than Universal Health Realty Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.02% of users gave Universal Health Realty Income Trust an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
Diversified Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 102.70%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Universal Health Realty Income Trust.
76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays out 247.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diversified Healthcare Trust beats Universal Health Realty Income Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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