CIO vs. BDN, BRSP, DX, DHC, TRTX, WSR, INN, KREF, CHCT, and GMRE
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Dynex Capital (DX), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Brandywine Realty Trust had 3 more articles in the media than City Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Brandywine Realty Trust and 0 mentions for City Office REIT. Brandywine Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Brandywine Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
City Office REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brandywine Realty Trust. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brandywine Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.5% of City Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brandywine Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brandywine Realty Trust received 86 more outperform votes than City Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote while only 54.61% of users gave Brandywine Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Brandywine Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $5.63, indicating a potential upside of 24.45%. Given Brandywine Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brandywine Realty Trust is more favorable than City Office REIT.
City Office REIT has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brandywine Realty Trust has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
City Office REIT has a net margin of -2.24% compared to Brandywine Realty Trust's net margin of -40.61%. City Office REIT's return on equity of -0.60% beat Brandywine Realty Trust's return on equity.
City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Brandywine Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. City Office REIT pays out -142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brandywine Realty Trust pays out -49.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Brandywine Realty Trust beats City Office REIT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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