IHT vs. SOHO, GIPR, NYC, MDRR, SQFT, WHLR, PW, IMH, PLD, and AMT
Should you be buying InnSuites Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InnSuites Hospitality Trust include Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Medalist Diversified REIT (MDRR), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (WHLR), Power REIT (PW), Impac Mortgage (IMH), Prologis (PLD), and American Tower (AMT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE:IHT) and Sotherly Hotels (NASDAQ:SOHO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
InnSuites Hospitality Trust has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sotherly Hotels has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
InnSuites Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Sotherly Hotels pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 38.2%. InnSuites Hospitality Trust pays out 66.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sotherly Hotels pays out -247.6% 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. Sotherly Hotels is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sotherly Hotels has higher revenue and earnings than InnSuites Hospitality Trust. Sotherly Hotels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InnSuites Hospitality Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sotherly Hotels received 195 more outperform votes than InnSuites Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.03% of users gave Sotherly Hotels an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave InnSuites Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sotherly Hotels had 3 more articles in the media than InnSuites Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sotherly Hotels and 2 mentions for InnSuites Hospitality Trust. InnSuites Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Sotherly Hotels' score of 0.31 indicating that InnSuites Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
InnSuites Hospitality Trust has a net margin of 2.99% compared to Sotherly Hotels' net margin of 2.18%. Sotherly Hotels' return on equity of 7.86% beat InnSuites Hospitality Trust's return on equity.
2.5% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.5% of Sotherly Hotels shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Sotherly Hotels shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sotherly Hotels has a consensus price target of $2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 65.44%. Given Sotherly Hotels' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sotherly Hotels is more favorable than InnSuites Hospitality Trust.
Summary
Sotherly Hotels beats InnSuites Hospitality Trust on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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