HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) Competitors

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE:HASI) and Host Hotels & Resorts (NASDAQ:HST) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.

Is HASI or HST more profitable?

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a net margin of 52.15% compared to Host Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 12.26%. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's return on equity of 11.84% beat Host Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	52.15%	11.84%	4.07%
Host Hotels & Resorts	12.26%	10.37%	5.47%

Do analysts prefer HASI or HST?

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.78%. Host Hotels & Resorts has a consensus price target of $18.27, suggesting a potential upside of 13.30%. Given HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital is more favorable than Host Hotels & Resorts.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.08
Host Hotels & Resorts	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of HASI or HST?

96.1% of HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more volatility and risk, HASI or HST?

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Host Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HASI or HST?

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital received 370 more outperform votes than Host Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.34% of users gave HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital an outperform vote while only 47.75% of users gave Host Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	Outperform Votes 423 68.34%	Underperform Votes 196 31.66%
Host Hotels & Resorts	Outperform Votes 53 47.75%	Underperform Votes 58 52.25%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, HASI or HST?

Host Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital. Host Hotels & Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, 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
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	$306.87M	10.42	$200.04M	$1.04	25.41
Host Hotels & Resorts	$5.81B	1.93	$740M	$0.96	16.80

Does the media refer more to HASI or HST?

In the previous week, HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital both had 7 articles in the media. Host Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital's score of 0.54 indicating that Host Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Host Hotels & Resorts	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is HASI or HST a better dividend stock?

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Host Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital pays out 161.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Host Hotels & Resorts pays out 83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Host Hotels & Resorts has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.

Summary

HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital beats Host Hotels & Resorts on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.