GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG) Competitors

Cannae (NYSE:CNNE) and GreenTree Hospitality Group (NYSE:GHG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Does the media refer more to CNNE or GHG?

In the previous week, Cannae had 9 more articles in the media than GreenTree Hospitality Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Cannae and 1 mentions for GreenTree Hospitality Group. Cannae's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat GreenTree Hospitality Group's score of -1.00 indicating that Cannae is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Cannae	Positive
GreenTree Hospitality Group	Negative

Do analysts rate CNNE or GHG?

Cannae presently has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.57%. GreenTree Hospitality Group has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 60.32%. Given GreenTree Hospitality Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GreenTree Hospitality Group is more favorable than Cannae.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cannae	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
GreenTree Hospitality Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CNNE or GHG?

GreenTree Hospitality Group received 56 more outperform votes than Cannae when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.50% of users gave GreenTree Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave Cannae an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cannae	Outperform Votes 134 62.04%	Underperform Votes 82 37.96%
GreenTree Hospitality Group	Outperform Votes 190 62.50%	Underperform Votes 114 37.50%

Is CNNE or GHG a better dividend stock?

Cannae pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. GreenTree Hospitality Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Cannae pays out -10.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GreenTree Hospitality Group pays out 14.8% 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.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CNNE or GHG?

GreenTree Hospitality Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cannae. Cannae is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GreenTree Hospitality Group, 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
Cannae	$452.50M	2.57	-$313.40M	-$4.72	-3.92
GreenTree Hospitality Group	$1.41B	0.18	$37.93M	$0.54	4.62

Is CNNE or GHG more profitable?

GreenTree Hospitality Group has a net margin of 13.93% compared to Cannae's net margin of -68.61%. GreenTree Hospitality Group's return on equity of 12.70% beat Cannae's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cannae	-68.61%	-8.26%	-7.01%
GreenTree Hospitality Group	13.93%	12.70%	3.84%

Which has more volatility and risk, CNNE or GHG?

Cannae has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GreenTree Hospitality Group has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CNNE or GHG?

88.1% of Cannae shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.1% of GreenTree Hospitality Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Cannae shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 88.7% of GreenTree Hospitality Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

GreenTree Hospitality Group beats Cannae on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.