CHCT vs. LXP, ABR, OUT, DEI, FCPT, EQC, AHR, DRH, CXW, and GNL
Should you be buying Community Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Healthcare Trust include LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), and Global Net Lease (GNL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
LXP Industrial Trust presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 30.95%. Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $30.33, indicating a potential upside of 35.12%. Given LXP Industrial Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than LXP Industrial Trust.
LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. LXP Industrial Trust pays out 1,300.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 287.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LXP Industrial Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Community Healthcare Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Community Healthcare Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Community Healthcare Trust has a net margin of 15.91% compared to Community Healthcare Trust's net margin of 5.52%. LXP Industrial Trust's return on equity of 3.57% beat Community Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Community Healthcare Trust had 1 more articles in the media than LXP Industrial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Community Healthcare Trust and 1 mentions for LXP Industrial Trust. LXP Industrial Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Community Healthcare Trust's score of 0.41 indicating that Community Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LXP Industrial Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Community Healthcare Trust. Community Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LXP Industrial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Healthcare Trust received 24 more outperform votes than LXP Industrial Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.01% of users gave Community Healthcare Trust an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Community Healthcare Trust beats LXP Industrial Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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