DHC vs. CHCT, NXRT, ALEX, LADR, CLI, SHO, GEO, DRH, CXW, and PEB
Should you be buying Diversified Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Healthcare Trust include Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Ladder Capital (LADR), Mack-Cali Realty (CLI), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), The GEO Group (GEO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB).
Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Community Healthcare Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Healthcare Trust received 18 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.01% of users gave Community Healthcare Trust an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
Community Healthcare Trust has a net margin of 15.91% compared to Community Healthcare Trust's net margin of -22.80%. Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity of 3.57% beat Community Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
Community Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 29.30%. Diversified Healthcare Trust has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 85.19%. Given Community Healthcare Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Community Healthcare Trust.
Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Diversified Healthcare Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Community Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust and 1 mentions for Community Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Community Healthcare Trust's score of 0.64 indicating that Community Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 287.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Healthcare Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Community Healthcare Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Community Healthcare Trust beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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