CIO vs. UNIT, KREF, TRTX, INN, WSR, CHCT, GMRE, DHC, NYMT, and FPI
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include Uniti Group (UNIT), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Farmland Partners (FPI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Uniti Group (NASDAQ:UNIT) and City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Uniti Group has a net margin of 1.43% compared to Uniti Group's net margin of -2.24%. Uniti Group's return on equity of -0.60% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.
Uniti Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.0%. City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Uniti Group pays out 1,000.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. City Office REIT pays out -142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Uniti Group has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City Office REIT has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.5% of Uniti Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of City Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Uniti Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of City Office REIT 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.
City Office REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Uniti Group. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uniti Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Uniti Group had 4 more articles in the media than City Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Uniti Group and 2 mentions for City Office REIT. Uniti Group's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.80 indicating that City Office REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Uniti Group received 154 more outperform votes than City Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.92% of users gave Uniti Group an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.
Uniti Group currently has a consensus target price of $6.25, indicating a potential upside of 97.78%. Given City Office REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Uniti Group is more favorable than City Office REIT.
Summary
Uniti Group beats City Office REIT on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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