DHC vs. CXW, SHO, DRH, LTC, RLJ, PEB, INN, UHT, SVC, and CLDT
Should you be buying Diversified Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Healthcare Trust include CoreCivic (CXW), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), and Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Diversified Healthcare Trust vs.
Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) and CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and dividends.
CoreCivic has a net margin of 3.51% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -26.09%. CoreCivic's return on equity of 5.97% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
CoreCivic received 118 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.02% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 53.70% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.15, indicating that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CoreCivic has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of CoreCivic shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of CoreCivic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diversified Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 82.19%. CoreCivic has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.91%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than CoreCivic.
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. CoreCivic pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CoreCivic pays out 288.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, CoreCivic had 2 more articles in the media than Diversified Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CoreCivic and 6 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat CoreCivic's score of 0.39 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CoreCivic beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DHC) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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