CXW vs. RHP, RYN, SBRA, PCH, EPR, NHI, MPW, GEO, SHO, and DRH
Should you be buying CoreCivic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CoreCivic include Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Rayonier (RYN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), EPR Properties (EPR), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), The GEO Group (GEO), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), and DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) and Ryman Hospitality Properties (NYSE:RHP) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Ryman Hospitality Properties has a net margin of 13.35% compared to CoreCivic's net margin of 3.34%. Ryman Hospitality Properties' return on equity of 56.37% beat CoreCivic's return on equity.
CoreCivic received 40 more outperform votes than Ryman Hospitality Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.88% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 57.33% of users gave Ryman Hospitality Properties an outperform vote.
CoreCivic has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryman Hospitality Properties has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Ryman Hospitality Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of CoreCivic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Ryman Hospitality Properties shares are held 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.
Ryman Hospitality Properties has higher revenue and earnings than CoreCivic. Ryman Hospitality Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CoreCivic presently has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.86%. Ryman Hospitality Properties has a consensus price target of $118.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.25%. Given Ryman Hospitality Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryman Hospitality Properties is more favorable than CoreCivic.
In the previous week, Ryman Hospitality Properties had 2 more articles in the media than CoreCivic. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ryman Hospitality Properties and 4 mentions for CoreCivic. Ryman Hospitality Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat CoreCivic's score of 0.26 indicating that Ryman Hospitality Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ryman Hospitality Properties beats CoreCivic on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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