SHO vs. PK, XHR, AMK, GSHD, SKT, INDB, CADE, FBP, MAC, and EBC
Should you be buying Sunstone Hotel Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunstone Hotel Investors include Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT), Independent Bank (INDB), Cadence Bank (CADE), First BanCorp. (FBP), Macerich (MAC), and Eastern Bankshares (EBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Sunstone Hotel Investors vs.
Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays out 54.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 39.5% 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.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 9.60% compared to Park Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 9.44%. Park Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 5.90% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 262 more outperform votes than Park Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote while only 57.38% of users gave Park Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Park Hotels & Resorts had 1 more articles in the media than Sunstone Hotel Investors. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Park Hotels & Resorts and 3 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors. Sunstone Hotel Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Park Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.84 indicating that Sunstone Hotel Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Park Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus price target of $17.55, suggesting a potential upside of 33.83%. Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus price target of $10.56, suggesting a potential upside of 5.20%. Given Park Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Park Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than Sunstone Hotel Investors.
Park Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Sunstone Hotel Investors. Park Hotels & Resorts 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.
89.4% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Park Hotels & Resorts and Sunstone Hotel Investors tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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