INN vs. DHC, UHT, CLDT, SVC, LTC, CXW, RLJ, PEB, DRH, and NYMT
Should you be buying Summit Hotel Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Hotel Properties include Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), LTC Properties (LTC), CoreCivic (CXW), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), and New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) and Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.56% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -20.82%. Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity of -0.83% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
Diversified Healthcare Trust has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 90.68%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
Summit Hotel Properties received 129 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summit Hotel Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -3.3% 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. Summit Hotel Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Summit Hotel Properties had 6 more articles in the media than Diversified Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties and 4 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Summit Hotel Properties' score of 0.31 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Summit Hotel Properties beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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