CIO vs. ONL, MITT, FSP, PINE, BHR, GPMT, NREF, EARN, MDV, and AJX
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include Orion Office REIT (ONL), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Modiv Industrial (MDV), and Great Ajax (AJX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Orion Office REIT (NYSE:ONL) and City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Orion Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Orion Office REIT pays out -30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. City Office REIT pays out -142.9% 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. Orion Office REIT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Orion Office REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Orion Office REIT has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City Office REIT has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
City Office REIT has a net margin of -2.24% compared to City Office REIT's net margin of -38.87%. Orion Office REIT's return on equity of -0.60% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.
City Office REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orion Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orion Office REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, City Office REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Orion Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for City Office REIT and 0 mentions for Orion Office REIT. City Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Orion Office REIT'saverage media sentiment score.
City Office REIT received 284 more outperform votes than Orion Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Orion Office REIT an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.
City Office REIT has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.80%. Given Orion Office REIT's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe City Office REIT is more favorable than Orion Office REIT.
80.0% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
City Office REIT beats Orion Office REIT on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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