NHI vs. MPW, EPR, DRH, PEB, RLJ, CXW, LTC, SVC, HR, and RHP
Should you be buying National Health Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Health Investors include Medical Properties Trust (MPW), EPR Properties (EPR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), CoreCivic (CXW), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), and Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) and National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Medical Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. National Health Investors pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Medical Properties Trust pays out -63.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Health Investors pays out 115.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Medical Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Medical Properties Trust presently has a consensus target price of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 27.21%. National Health Investors has a consensus target price of $60.50, suggesting a potential downside of 3.15%. Given National Health Investors' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Medical Properties Trust is more favorable than National Health Investors.
Medical Properties Trust received 65 more outperform votes than National Health Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.09% of users gave Medical Properties Trust an outperform vote while only 56.22% of users gave National Health Investors an outperform vote.
Medical Properties Trust has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Health Investors has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Medical Properties Trust had 14 more articles in the media than National Health Investors. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Medical Properties Trust and 4 mentions for National Health Investors. National Health Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Medical Properties Trust's score of 0.24 indicating that Medical Properties Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Health Investors has a net margin of 42.40% compared to National Health Investors' net margin of -2.40%. Medical Properties Trust's return on equity of 10.65% beat National Health Investors' return on equity.
71.8% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of National Health Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of National Health Investors shares are owned 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.
National Health Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Medical Properties Trust. Medical Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Health Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Medical Properties Trust and National Health Investors tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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