AHT vs. AMT, WELL, PSA, EXR, WY, VTR, CUBE, OHI, RHP, and HR
Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Ventas (VTR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, meaning that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ashford Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.5%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays out -7.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Tower pays out 146.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashford Hospitality Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ashford Hospitality Trust currently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 113.68%. American Tower has a consensus price target of $220.91, indicating a potential upside of 12.86%. Given Ashford Hospitality Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than American Tower.
American Tower has a net margin of 18.42% compared to Ashford Hospitality Trust's net margin of -3.51%. American Tower's return on equity of 18.45% beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity.
41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Tower received 512 more outperform votes than Ashford Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.02% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, American Tower had 12 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for American Tower and 1 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat American Tower's score of 0.97 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
American Tower beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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