HR vs. WY, VTR, CUBE, OHI, RHP, RYN, PCH, SBRA, EPR, and MPW
Should you be buying Healthcare Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Healthcare Realty Trust include Weyerhaeuser (WY), Ventas (VTR), CubeSmart (CUBE), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Rayonier (RYN), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), and Medical Properties Trust (MPW). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Weyerhaeuser (NYSE:WY) and Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
83.0% of Weyerhaeuser shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Weyerhaeuser shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Healthcare Realty Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Weyerhaeuser. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust and 4 mentions for Weyerhaeuser. Weyerhaeuser's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Healthcare Realty Trust's score of 0.53 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Weyerhaeuser received 219 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave Weyerhaeuser an outperform vote while only 51.22% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Weyerhaeuser presently has a consensus price target of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.29%. Healthcare Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $17.20, indicating a potential upside of 10.61%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Weyerhaeuser is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
Weyerhaeuser pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Weyerhaeuser pays out 72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -93.2% 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. Weyerhaeuser has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Healthcare Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Weyerhaeuser has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Weyerhaeuser has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weyerhaeuser, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Weyerhaeuser has a net margin of 10.57% compared to Weyerhaeuser's net margin of -37.53%. Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity of 7.00% beat Weyerhaeuser's return on equity.
Summary
Weyerhaeuser beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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