BNL vs. NHI, HIW, CDP, SITC, NSA, HASI, SKT, BXMT, LXP, and EPR
Should you be buying Broadstone Net Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadstone Net Lease include National Health Investors (NHI), Highwoods Properties (HIW), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), SITE Centers (SITC), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), Tanger (SKT), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), and EPR Properties (EPR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) and Broadstone Net Lease (NYSE:BNL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
National Health Investors presently has a consensus target price of $60.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.35%. Broadstone Net Lease has a consensus target price of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.91%. Given National Health Investors' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Broadstone Net Lease is more favorable than National Health Investors.
Broadstone Net Lease has higher revenue and earnings than National Health Investors. Broadstone Net Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Health Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, National Health Investors had 10 more articles in the media than Broadstone Net Lease. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for National Health Investors and 4 mentions for Broadstone Net Lease. National Health Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Broadstone Net Lease's score of -0.06 indicating that Broadstone Net Lease is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Broadstone Net Lease has a net margin of 42.23% compared to Broadstone Net Lease's net margin of 41.40%. Broadstone Net Lease's return on equity of 10.41% beat National Health Investors' return on equity.
National Health Investors received 327 more outperform votes than Broadstone Net Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.22% of users gave National Health Investors an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Broadstone Net Lease an outperform vote.
National Health Investors pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Broadstone Net Lease pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. National Health Investors pays out 118.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Broadstone Net Lease pays out 118.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Health Investors has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Broadstone Net Lease has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Broadstone Net Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
National Health Investors has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadstone Net Lease has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
62.5% of National Health Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of National Health Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Broadstone Net Lease shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
National Health Investors beats Broadstone Net Lease on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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