SHO vs. XHR, PK, FCPT, DEI, CWK, GSHD, PTY, INDB, BANC, and PPBI
Should you be buying Sunstone Hotel Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunstone Hotel Investors include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Independent Bank (INDB), Banc of California (BANC), and Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. Sunstone Hotel Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Xenia Hotels & Resorts had 2 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and 0 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' score of -0.33 indicating that Xenia Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $15.70, indicating a potential upside of 7.87%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.94%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xenia Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts pays out 282.4% 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 pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Xenia Hotels & Resorts is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.95% compared to Sunstone Hotel Investors' net margin of 1.87%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 11.32% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 234 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Summary
Xenia Hotels & Resorts beats Sunstone Hotel Investors on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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