DHC vs. CXW, SHO, DRH, LTC, PEB, RLJ, UHT, INN, CLDT, and SVC
Should you be buying Diversified Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Healthcare Trust include CoreCivic (CXW), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), LTC Properties (LTC), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), and Service Properties Trust (SVC). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Diversified Healthcare Trust vs.
CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) and Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CoreCivic pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CoreCivic pays out 231.6% 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 pays out -3.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
CoreCivic has a net margin of 3.51% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -26.09%. CoreCivic's return on equity of 5.97% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
CoreCivic has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CoreCivic presently has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.54%. Diversified Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.43%. Given CoreCivic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CoreCivic is more favorable than Diversified Healthcare Trust.
In the previous week, CoreCivic had 12 more articles in the media than Diversified Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for CoreCivic and 6 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.64 beat CoreCivic's score of 0.77 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CoreCivic received 118 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.02% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of CoreCivic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CoreCivic beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DHC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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