Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT) Competitors

City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (NYSE:CRT) are both small-cap trading companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, CIO or CRT?

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than City Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
City Office REIT	$171.13M	1.27	-$17.68M	-$0.65	-8.31
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	$6.62M	8.89	$6.54M	$0.99	9.91

Is CIO or CRT a better dividend stock?

City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. City Office REIT pays out -61.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust pays out 43.4% 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 has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. City Office REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is CIO or CRT more profitable?

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a net margin of 87.50% compared to City Office REIT's net margin of -11.11%. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's return on equity of 243.41% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
City Office REIT	-11.11%	-2.98%	-1.28%
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	87.50%	243.41%	150.00%

Which has more risk & volatility, CIO or CRT?

City Office REIT has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in CIO or CRT?

67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of City Office REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media prefer CIO or CRT?

In the previous week, Cross Timbers Royalty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than City Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cross Timbers Royalty Trust and 2 mentions for City Office REIT. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.74 indicating that Cross Timbers Royalty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
City Office REIT	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust beats City Office REIT on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.