CHCT vs. DX, BDN, KREF, BRSP, INN, NYMT, BFS, NXRT, ARR, and WSR
Should you be buying Community Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Healthcare Trust include Dynex Capital (DX), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Saul Centers (BFS), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and Whitestone REIT (WSR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 30.50% compared to Community Healthcare Trust's net margin of 15.91%. Community Healthcare Trust's return on equity of 3.57% beat Dynex Capital's return on equity.
Community Healthcare Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dynex Capital. Dynex Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Dynex Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 285.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dynex Capital pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dynex Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Dynex Capital shares are owned 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.
Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Community Healthcare Trust had 12 more articles in the media than Dynex Capital. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Community Healthcare Trust and 1 mentions for Dynex Capital. Dynex Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Community Healthcare Trust's score of 0.45 indicating that Dynex Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus price target of $30.33, indicating a potential upside of 24.16%. Dynex Capital has a consensus price target of $13.31, indicating a potential upside of 8.76%. Given Community Healthcare Trust's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Dynex Capital.
Dynex Capital received 6 more outperform votes than Community Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.01% of users gave Community Healthcare Trust an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Community Healthcare Trust and Dynex Capital tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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