Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT) Competitors

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

Is CIO or CRT a better dividend stock?

City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. City Office REIT pays out -95.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust pays out 99.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, CIO or CRT?

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than City Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust, 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
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	$7.65M	7.54	$13.13M	$1.12	8.58

Is CIO or CRT more profitable?

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a net margin of 88.08% compared to City Office REIT's net margin of -5.56%. Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's return on equity of 262.62% 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%
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	88.08%	262.62%	168.49%

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

67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Cross Timbers Royalty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CIO or CRT?

City Office REIT received 129 more outperform votes than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.29% of users gave Cross Timbers Royalty Trust an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
City Office REIT	Outperform Votes 287 59.30%	Underperform Votes 197 40.70%
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	Outperform Votes 158 65.29%	Underperform Votes 84 34.71%

Does the media favor CIO or CRT?

In the previous week, City Office REIT had 5 more articles in the media than Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for City Office REIT and 1 mentions for Cross Timbers Royalty Trust. City Office REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Cross Timbers Royalty Trust's score of 0.00 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
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, CIO or CRT?

City Office REIT has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Timbers Royalty Trust has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust beats City Office REIT on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.