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.
UDR (NYSE:UDR) and Host Hotels & Resorts (NASDAQ:HST) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
UDR pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Host Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. 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 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 has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Host Hotels & Resorts has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. UDR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
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 currently has a consensus target price of $40.35, suggesting a potential upside of 7.41%. Host Hotels & Resorts has a consensus target price of $21.29, suggesting a potential upside of 19.65%. Given UDR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Host Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than UDR.
97.8% of UDR shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of UDR shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
UDR has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Host Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Host Hotels & Resorts had 18 more articles in the media than UDR. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Host Hotels & Resorts and 6 mentions for UDR. UDR's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Host Hotels & Resorts' score of -0.06 indicating that Host Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UDR received 408 more outperform votes than Host Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.20% of users gave UDR an outperform vote while only 46.34% of users gave Host Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
UDR has a net margin of 27.81% compared to UDR's net margin of 13.35%. Host Hotels & Resorts' return on equity of 11.57% beat UDR's return on equity.
Summary
Host Hotels & Resorts beats UDR on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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