INN vs. DHC, UHT, CLDT, SVC, LTC, RLJ, CXW, PEB, DRH, and MPW Should you be buying Summit Hotel Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Hotel Properties include Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), CoreCivic (CXW), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), and Medical Properties Trust (MPW). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC ) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% 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. Summit Hotel Properties has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Summit Hotel Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.04% compared to Summit Hotel Properties' net margin of -22.80%. Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity of -0.56% beat Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity.
Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diversified Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 89.87%. Given Summit Hotel Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
Summit Hotel Properties received 129 more outperform votes than Diversified Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summit Hotel Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Diversified Healthcare Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Summit Hotel Properties. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust and 0 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties. Summit Hotel Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's score of -0.59 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary Summit Hotel Properties beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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