UHT vs. SHO, GEO, DRH, CXW, PEB, RLJ, LTC, SVC, INN, and DHC
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 Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), The GEO Group (GEO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), and Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) and Sunstone Hotel Investors (NYSE:SHO) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays out 247.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sunstone Hotel Investors pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Sunstone Hotel Investors 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.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a net margin of 20.69% compared to Universal Health Realty Income Trust's net margin of 16.66%. Sunstone Hotel Investors' return on equity of 10.75% beat Universal Health Realty Income Trust's return on equity.
Sunstone Hotel Investors has a consensus target price of $10.57, indicating a potential upside of 2.83%. Given Sunstone Hotel Investors' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sunstone Hotel Investors is more favorable than Universal Health Realty Income Trust.
Sunstone Hotel Investors received 364 more outperform votes than Universal Health Realty Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.02% of users gave Universal Health Realty Income Trust an outperform vote while only 59.91% of users gave Sunstone Hotel Investors an outperform vote.
64.7% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Sunstone Hotel Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Universal Health Realty Income 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sunstone Hotel Investors had 11 more articles in the media than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sunstone Hotel Investors and 2 mentions for Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Sunstone Hotel Investors' score of 0.51 indicating that Universal Health Realty Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunstone Hotel Investors has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sunstone Hotel Investors beats Universal Health Realty Income Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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