Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT) Competitors

Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, SHO or UHT?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Universal Health Realty Income 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sunstone Hotel Investors	$905.81M	1.85	$206.71M	$0.14	59.50
Universal Health Realty Income Trust	$99.01M	5.33	$15.40M	$1.39	27.42

Is SHO or UHT a better dividend stock?

Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 257.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays out 211.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Universal Health Realty Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is SHO or UHT more profitable?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 18.61% compared to Universal Health Realty Income Trust's net margin of 18.41%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's return on equity of 9.44% beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sunstone Hotel Investors	18.61%	9.04%	5.40%
Universal Health Realty Income Trust	18.41%	9.44%	3.07%

Which has more risk & volatility, SHO or UHT?

Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SHO or UHT?

Sunstone Hotel Investors received 365 more outperform votes than Universal Health Realty Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.94% of users gave Universal Health Realty Income Trust an outperform vote while only 58.96% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Sunstone Hotel Investors	Outperform Votes 546 58.96%	Underperform Votes 380 41.04%
Universal Health Realty Income Trust	Outperform Votes 181 60.94%	Underperform Votes 116 39.06%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in SHO or UHT?

99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are held by company 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.

Do analysts rate SHO or UHT?

Sunstone Hotel Investors presently has a consensus target price of $10.44, suggesting a potential upside of 25.38%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sunstone Hotel Investors is more favorable than Universal Health Realty Income Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sunstone Hotel Investors	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
Universal Health Realty Income Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media favor SHO or UHT?

In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 10 more articles in the media than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 4 mentions for Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 0.93 indicating that Universal Health Realty Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Sunstone Hotel Investors	8 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Universal Health Realty Income Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Universal Health Realty Income Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.