Healthcare Realty Trust (HR) Competitors

Weyerhaeuser (NYSE:WY) and Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in WY or HR?

83.0% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate WY or HR?

Weyerhaeuser presently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.46%. Healthcare Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.80%. Given Weyerhaeuser's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Weyerhaeuser is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Weyerhaeuser	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.88
Healthcare Realty Trust	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is WY or HR a better dividend stock?

Weyerhaeuser pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Weyerhaeuser pays out 152.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -69.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more volatility and risk, WY or HR?

Weyerhaeuser has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer WY or HR?

In the previous week, Weyerhaeuser had 11 more articles in the media than Healthcare Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Weyerhaeuser and 8 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Weyerhaeuser's score of 1.43 indicating that Healthcare Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Weyerhaeuser	17 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Healthcare Realty Trust	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WY or HR?

Weyerhaeuser received 226 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.23% of users gave Weyerhaeuser an outperform vote while only 50.15% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Weyerhaeuser	Outperform Votes 562 64.23%	Underperform Votes 313 35.77%
Healthcare Realty Trust	Outperform Votes 336 50.15%	Underperform Votes 334 49.85%

Which has better earnings and valuation, WY or HR?

Weyerhaeuser has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weyerhaeuser, 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
Weyerhaeuser	$7.12B	3.01	$396M	$0.55	53.72
Healthcare Realty Trust	$1.25B	4.74	-$278.26M	-$1.78	-9.47

Is WY or HR more profitable?

Weyerhaeuser has a net margin of 5.56% compared to Healthcare Realty Trust's net margin of -51.60%. Weyerhaeuser's return on equity of 3.86% beat Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Weyerhaeuser	5.56%	3.86%	2.30%
Healthcare Realty Trust	-51.60%	-11.20%	-5.69%

Summary

Weyerhaeuser beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.