INN vs. SHO, LTC, DRH, PEB, RLJ, DHC, UHT, SVC, CLDT, and AHT
Should you be buying Summit Hotel Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Hotel Properties include Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), LTC Properties (LTC), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), and Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Summit Hotel Properties vs.
Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 360.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Summit Hotel Properties pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sunstone Hotel Investors has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Summit Hotel Properties has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Summit Hotel Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunstone Hotel Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 10 more articles in the media than Summit Hotel Properties. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 1 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 1.12 indicating that Summit Hotel Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 143 more outperform votes than Summit Hotel Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.71% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 59.01% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote.
99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 18.61% compared to Summit Hotel Properties' net margin of 3.41%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 9.04% beat Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors currently has a consensus target price of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 18.29%. Summit Hotel Properties has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.19%. Given Summit Hotel Properties' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Summit Hotel Properties is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Summit Hotel Properties on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:INN) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
