HHH vs. MPW, MAC, SBRA, GRP.U, SLG, BXMT, CTRE, EPR, APLE, and CUZ
Should you be buying Howard Hughes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howard Hughes include Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Macerich (MAC), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), SL Green Realty (SLG), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), EPR Properties (EPR), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE), and Cousins Properties (CUZ). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) and Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Medical Properties Trust currently has a consensus price target of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 14.77%. Howard Hughes has a consensus price target of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.60%. Given Medical Properties Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Howard Hughes is more favorable than Medical Properties Trust.
Medical Properties Trust received 412 more outperform votes than Howard Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.84% of users gave Medical Properties Trust an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote.
Medical Properties Trust has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Medical Properties Trust has a net margin of -2.40% compared to Medical Properties Trust's net margin of -58.21%. Medical Properties Trust's return on equity of -1.59% beat Howard Hughes' return on equity.
In the previous week, Medical Properties Trust had 19 more articles in the media than Howard Hughes. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Medical Properties Trust and 4 mentions for Howard Hughes. Medical Properties Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Howard Hughes' score of 1.12 indicating that Howard Hughes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.8% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Medical Properties Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Howard Hughes has higher revenue and earnings than Medical Properties Trust. Howard Hughes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Medical Properties Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Howard Hughes beats Medical Properties Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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