City Office REIT (CIO) Competitors

City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and Plymouth Industrial REIT (NYSE:PLYM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Is CIO or PLYM a better dividend stock?

City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Plymouth Industrial REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. City Office REIT pays out -64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plymouth Industrial REIT pays out 31.4% 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. City Office REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts recommend CIO or PLYM?

Plymouth Industrial REIT has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.67%. Given Plymouth Industrial REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Plymouth Industrial REIT is more favorable than City Office REIT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
City Office REIT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Plymouth Industrial REIT	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.22

Which has more volatility & risk, CIO or PLYM?

City Office REIT has a beta of 2, suggesting that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plymouth Industrial REIT has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CIO or PLYM more profitable?

Plymouth Industrial REIT has a net margin of 0.46% compared to City Office REIT's net margin of -10.33%. Plymouth Industrial REIT's return on equity of 0.20% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
City Office REIT	-10.33%	-2.74%	-1.19%
Plymouth Industrial REIT	0.46%	0.20%	0.06%

Does the media prefer CIO or PLYM?

In the previous week, Plymouth Industrial REIT had 9 more articles in the media than City Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Plymouth Industrial REIT and 2 mentions for City Office REIT. City Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Plymouth Industrial REIT's score of 0.42 indicating that City Office REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
City Office REIT	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Plymouth Industrial REIT	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, CIO or PLYM?

Plymouth Industrial REIT has higher revenue and earnings than City Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plymouth Industrial REIT, 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
City Office REIT	$171.13M	1.23	-$2.68M	-$0.62	-8.42
Plymouth Industrial REIT	$198.36M	3.87	$13.66M	$3.06	5.50

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CIO or PLYM?

67.5% of City Office REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Plymouth Industrial REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of City Office REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Plymouth Industrial REIT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CIO or PLYM?

City Office REIT received 257 more outperform votes than Plymouth Industrial REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote while only 43.48% of users gave Plymouth Industrial REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
City Office REIT	Outperform Votes 287 59.30%	Underperform Votes 197 40.70%
Plymouth Industrial REIT	Outperform Votes 30 43.48%	Underperform Votes 39 56.52%

Summary

Plymouth Industrial REIT beats City Office REIT on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.