Government Properties Income Trust (GOV) Competitors

Government Properties Income Trust (NASDAQ:GOV) and Equity Commonwealth (NYSE:EQC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and dividends.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of GOV or EQC?

63.5% of Government Properties Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Equity Commonwealth shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Government Properties Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Equity Commonwealth shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, GOV or EQC?

Equity Commonwealth has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Government Properties Income Trust. Government Properties Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Commonwealth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Government Properties Income Trust	$316.53M	0.27	$12.09M	$2.02	0.43
Equity Commonwealth	$60.52M	3.06	$91.16M	$0.39	4.42

Is GOV or EQC more profitable?

Equity Commonwealth has a net margin of 82.00% compared to Government Properties Income Trust's net margin of 4.14%. Equity Commonwealth's return on equity of 2.09% beat Government Properties Income Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Government Properties Income Trust	4.14%	0.64%	0.23%
Equity Commonwealth	82.00%	2.09%	1.96%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GOV or EQC?

Government Properties Income Trust received 140 more outperform votes than Equity Commonwealth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.03% of users gave Government Properties Income Trust an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Equity Commonwealth an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Government Properties Income Trust	Outperform Votes 440 60.03%	Underperform Votes 293 39.97%
Equity Commonwealth	Outperform Votes 300 55.56%	Underperform Votes 240 44.44%

Does the media prefer GOV or EQC?

In the previous week, Government Properties Income Trust and Government Properties Income Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Equity Commonwealth's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Government Properties Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Equity Commonwealth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Government Properties Income Trust	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Equity Commonwealth	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, GOV or EQC?

Government Properties Income Trust has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Commonwealth has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Equity Commonwealth beats Government Properties Income Trust on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.