SVC vs. CIM, PGRE, BDN, WRE, RLJ, PCH, SBRA, MPW, EPR, and NHI
Should you be buying Service Properties Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Properties Trust include Chimera Investment (CIM), Paramount Group (PGRE), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRE), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), EPR Properties (EPR), and National Health Investors (NHI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Chimera Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Service Properties Trust. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.9%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Service Properties Trust pays out -95.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chimera Investment pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Service Properties Trust and Service Properties Trust both had 8 articles in the media. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Service Properties Trust's score of 0.64 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Service Properties Trust presently has a consensus price target of $7.58, suggesting a potential upside of 40.95%. Chimera Investment has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.66%. Given Service Properties Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Chimera Investment.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 25.73% compared to Service Properties Trust's net margin of -7.29%. Chimera Investment's return on equity of 7.46% beat Service Properties Trust's return on equity.
Chimera Investment received 115 more outperform votes than Service Properties Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.04% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote while only 51.05% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Service Properties Trust on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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