SHO vs. HR, RHP, RYN, SBRA, PCH, EPR, NHI, MPW, GEO, and DRH
Should you be buying Sunstone Hotel Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunstone Hotel Investors include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Rayonier (RYN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), EPR Properties (EPR), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), The GEO Group (GEO), and DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Healthcare Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $17.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.56%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus price target of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 3.37%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sunstone Hotel Investors is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 1 more articles in the media than Healthcare Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 4 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Healthcare Realty Trust's score of 0.06 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -93.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Sunstone Hotel Investors' net margin of -37.53%. Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity of 10.75% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 210 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.56% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 50.99% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust 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.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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