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.
American Tower (NYSE:AMT) and Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
American Tower currently has a consensus target price of $220.91, suggesting a potential upside of 12.86%. Ashford Hospitality Trust has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 113.68%. Given American Tower's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than American Tower.
American Tower has a net margin of 18.42% compared to American Tower's net margin of -3.51%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 18.45% beat American Tower's return on equity.
American Tower has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, meaning that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held 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.
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.
In the previous week, American Tower had 11 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for American Tower and 1 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat American Tower's score of 1.00 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
American Tower beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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