DRH vs. HR, RHP, RYN, SBRA, EPR, NHI, PCH, MPW, GEO, and SHO
Should you be buying DiamondRock Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DiamondRock Hospitality include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Rayonier (RYN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), National Health Investors (NHI), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), The GEO Group (GEO), and Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) and DiamondRock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a net margin of 7.86% compared to DiamondRock Hospitality's net margin of -37.53%. Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity of 5.20% beat DiamondRock Hospitality's return on equity.
Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DiamondRock Hospitality has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DiamondRock Hospitality received 70 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.09% of users gave DiamondRock Hospitality an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
DiamondRock Hospitality has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DiamondRock Hospitality, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, DiamondRock Hospitality had 1 more articles in the media than Healthcare Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for DiamondRock Hospitality and 4 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust. DiamondRock Hospitality's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Healthcare Realty Trust's score of 0.66 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Healthcare Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $17.50, indicating a potential downside of 2.56%. DiamondRock Hospitality has a consensus target price of $10.30, indicating a potential upside of 23.65%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DiamondRock Hospitality is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. DiamondRock Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -93.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DiamondRock Hospitality pays out 33.3% 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. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
DiamondRock Hospitality beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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