UHT vs. CLDT, DHC, INN, SVC, LTC, CXW, RLJ, PEB, OLP, and PKST
Should you be buying Universal Health Realty Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Health Realty Income Trust include Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Service Properties Trust (SVC), LTC Properties (LTC), CoreCivic (CXW), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), One Liberty Properties (OLP), and Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) and Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Chatham Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays out 261.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chatham Lodging Trust pays out -254.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Chatham Lodging Trust's net margin of 0.85%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's return on equity of 7.25% beat Chatham Lodging Trust's return on equity.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Realty Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.7% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chatham Lodging Trust received 207 more outperform votes than Universal Health Realty Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Chatham Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Universal Health Realty Income Trust an outperform vote.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chatham Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chatham Lodging Trust has a consensus target price of $13.33, suggesting a potential upside of 42.15%. Given Chatham Lodging Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chatham Lodging Trust is more favorable than Universal Health Realty Income Trust.
In the previous week, Universal Health Realty Income Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Chatham Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Universal Health Realty Income Trust and 2 mentions for Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Universal Health Realty Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Chatham Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Chatham Lodging Trust beats Universal Health Realty Income Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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