BHR vs. ONL, CIO, MITT, MDV, FSP, PINE, LFT, GPMT, NREF, and ACR
Should you be buying Braemar Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Braemar Hotels & Resorts include Orion Office REIT (ONL), City Office REIT (CIO), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Modiv Industrial (MDV), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), and ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:BHR) and Orion Office REIT (NYSE:ONL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts has a net margin of -3.65% compared to Orion Office REIT's net margin of -29.38%. Orion Office REIT's return on equity of -6.20% beat Braemar Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Office REIT has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Orion Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Braemar Hotels & Resorts pays out -17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orion Office REIT pays out -39.2% 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. Orion Office REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
64.8% of Braemar Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Braemar Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Orion Office REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Braemar Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Orion Office REIT and 1 mentions for Braemar Hotels & Resorts. Orion Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Braemar Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.40 indicating that Orion Office REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Orion Office REIT. Orion 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.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts currently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Given Braemar Hotels & Resorts' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Braemar Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Orion Office REIT.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts received 86 more outperform votes than Orion Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Orion Office REIT an outperform vote while only 54.27% of users gave Braemar Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Summary
Braemar Hotels & Resorts and Orion Office REIT tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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