NHI vs. CUBE, OHI, RHP, HR, RYN, PCH, SBRA, EPR, MPW, and SHO
Should you be buying National Health Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Health Investors include CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Rayonier (RYN), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE) and National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
National Health Investors has a net margin of 41.40% compared to National Health Investors' net margin of 38.64%. National Health Investors' return on equity of 14.48% beat CubeSmart's return on equity.
CubeSmart currently has a consensus price target of $46.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.12%. National Health Investors has a consensus price target of $61.25, suggesting a potential downside of 7.27%. Given National Health Investors' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CubeSmart is more favorable than National Health Investors.
In the previous week, CubeSmart had 4 more articles in the media than National Health Investors. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CubeSmart and 8 mentions for National Health Investors. CubeSmart's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat National Health Investors' score of 0.27 indicating that National Health Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CubeSmart pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. National Health Investors pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. CubeSmart pays out 113.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Health Investors pays out 118.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CubeSmart has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and National Health Investors has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
CubeSmart has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Health Investors has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.6% of CubeSmart shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of National Health Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of CubeSmart shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of National Health Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CubeSmart received 85 more outperform votes than National Health Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave CubeSmart an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave National Health Investors an outperform vote.
CubeSmart has higher revenue and earnings than National Health Investors. National Health Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CubeSmart, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CubeSmart beats National Health Investors on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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