HTA vs. NNN, FRT, FR, STAG, BRX, STWD, COLD, HR, OHI, and AGNC
Should you be buying Healthcare Trust of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Healthcare Trust of America include NNN REIT (NNN), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), STAG Industrial (STAG), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), and AGNC Investment (AGNC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Healthcare Trust of America (NYSE:HTA) and NNN REIT (NYSE:NNN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Healthcare Trust of America pays an annual dividend of $1.33 per share. NNN REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Healthcare Trust of America pays out 316.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NNN REIT pays out 110.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NNN REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NNN REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Trust of America. Healthcare Trust of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NNN REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NNN REIT has a consensus price target of $46.30, indicating a potential upside of 33.41%.
88.4% of NNN REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Healthcare Trust of America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of NNN REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Healthcare Trust of America has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NNN REIT has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NNN REIT received 7 more outperform votes than Healthcare Trust of America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.38% of users gave NNN REIT an outperform vote while only 55.35% of users gave Healthcare Trust of America an outperform vote.
NNN REIT has a net margin of 46.07% compared to Healthcare Trust of America's net margin of 12.13%. NNN REIT's return on equity of 8.97% beat Healthcare Trust of America's return on equity.
In the previous week, NNN REIT had 3 more articles in the media than Healthcare Trust of America. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for NNN REIT and 1 mentions for Healthcare Trust of America. Healthcare Trust of America's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat NNN REIT's score of 0.29 indicating that Healthcare Trust of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NNN REIT beats Healthcare Trust of America on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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