CIO vs. BHR, ONL, MITT, PINE, FSP, GPMT, NREF, MDV, EARN, and LFT
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Orion Office REIT (ONL), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Modiv Industrial (MDV), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and Braemar Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:BHR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
City Office REIT currently has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.63%. Braemar Hotels & Resorts has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential downside of 4.58%. Given City Office REIT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe City Office REIT is more favorable than Braemar Hotels & Resorts.
City Office REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Braemar Hotels & Resorts. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Braemar Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City Office REIT received 198 more outperform votes than Braemar Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote while only 54.27% of users gave Braemar Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
67.5% of City Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Braemar Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Braemar Hotels & Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Braemar Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. City Office REIT pays out -160.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Braemar Hotels & Resorts pays out -17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. City Office REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
City Office REIT has a net margin of -1.50% compared to Braemar Hotels & Resorts' net margin of -3.65%. City Office REIT's return on equity of -0.40% beat Braemar Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
City Office REIT has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Braemar Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, City Office REIT had 15 more articles in the media than Braemar Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for City Office REIT and 2 mentions for Braemar Hotels & Resorts. Braemar Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.11 indicating that Braemar Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
City Office REIT beats Braemar Hotels & Resorts on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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