City Office REIT (CIO) Competitors

City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) and BrightSpire Capital (NYSE:BRSP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in CIO or BRSP?

67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of BrightSpire Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of BrightSpire Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer CIO or BRSP?

BrightSpire Capital has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.25%. Given BrightSpire Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BrightSpire Capital 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
BrightSpire Capital	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has higher valuation & earnings, CIO or BRSP?

City Office REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BrightSpire Capital. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSpire Capital, 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	$173.53M	1.26	-$2.68M	-$0.42	-12.98
BrightSpire Capital	$364.80M	2.12	-$15.55M	-$1.02	-5.85

Which has more risk and volatility, CIO or BRSP?

City Office REIT has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightSpire Capital has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CIO or BRSP a better dividend stock?

City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. BrightSpire Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. City Office REIT pays out -95.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BrightSpire Capital pays out -62.7% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CIO or BRSP?

City Office REIT received 274 more outperform votes than BrightSpire Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote while only 44.83% of users gave BrightSpire Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
City Office REIT	Outperform Votes 287 59.30%	Underperform Votes 197 40.70%
BrightSpire Capital	Outperform Votes 13 44.83%	Underperform Votes 16 55.17%

Is CIO or BRSP more profitable?

City Office REIT has a net margin of -5.56% compared to BrightSpire Capital's net margin of -69.35%. BrightSpire Capital's return on equity of 9.44% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
City Office REIT	-5.56%	-1.48%	-0.65%
BrightSpire Capital	-69.35%	9.44%	2.79%

Does the media favor CIO or BRSP?

In the previous week, City Office REIT had 1 more articles in the media than BrightSpire Capital. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for City Office REIT and 5 mentions for BrightSpire Capital. City Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat BrightSpire Capital's score of 0.40 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	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
BrightSpire Capital	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

City Office REIT beats BrightSpire Capital on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.