HST vs. UDR, WPC, AMH, ELS, CPT, SPG, PSA, O, DLR, and EXR
Should you be buying Host Hotels & Resorts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Host Hotels & Resorts include UDR (UDR), W. P. Carey (WPC), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), Realty Income (O), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), and Extra Space Storage (EXR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Host Hotels & Resorts (NASDAQ:HST) and UDR (NYSE:UDR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Host Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UDR has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
UDR received 407 more outperform votes than Host Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.19% of users gave UDR an outperform vote while only 47.06% of users gave Host Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Host Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $21.36, suggesting a potential upside of 19.05%. UDR has a consensus target price of $40.65, suggesting a potential upside of 5.25%. Given Host Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Host Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than UDR.
Host Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. UDR pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Host Hotels & Resorts pays out 78.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UDR pays out 123.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Host Hotels & Resorts is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Host Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than UDR. Host Hotels & Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UDR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UDR has a net margin of 27.81% compared to Host Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 13.35%. UDR's return on equity of 11.57% beat Host Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
98.5% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of UDR shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of UDR shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Host Hotels & Resorts had 11 more articles in the media than UDR. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Host Hotels & Resorts and 10 mentions for UDR. Host Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat UDR's score of 0.52 indicating that Host Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Host Hotels & Resorts beats UDR on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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