Host Hotels & Resorts (NASDAQ:HST) & Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) Head-To-Head Survey

Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Host Hotels & Resorts (NASDAQ:HST) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Community Healthcare Trust and Host Hotels & Resorts, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Community Healthcare Trust	1	1	2	0	2.25
Host Hotels & Resorts	0	7	7	1	2.60

Community Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.80%. Host Hotels & Resorts has a consensus price target of $19.32, indicating a potential downside of 1.12%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Host Hotels & Resorts.

Dividends

Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Host Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out -475.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Host Hotels & Resorts pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Community Healthcare Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Host Hotels & Resorts has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Community Healthcare Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Community Healthcare Trust and Host Hotels & Resorts”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Community Healthcare Trust	$115.79 million	4.30	-$3.18 million	($0.40)	-43.71
Host Hotels & Resorts	$5.68 billion	2.36	$697.00 million	$1.05	18.61

Host Hotels & Resorts has higher revenue and earnings than Community Healthcare Trust. Community Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Host Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Host Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Community Healthcare Trust and Host Hotels & Resorts’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Community Healthcare Trust	-6.27%	-1.66%	-0.76%
Host Hotels & Resorts	12.43%	11.11%	5.68%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Host Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Host Hotels & Resorts beats Community Healthcare Trust on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Community Healthcare Trust

Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the Company”, we”, our”) was organized in the State of Maryland on March 28, 2014. The Company is a fully-integrated healthcare real estate company that owns and acquires real estate properties that are leased to hospitals, doctors, healthcare systems or other healthcare service providers. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had investments of approximately $1.1 billion in 197 real estate properties (including a portion of one property accounted for as a sales-type lease with a gross amount totaling approximately $3.0 million and two properties classified as an asset held for sale with an aggregate amount totaling approximately $7.5 million. The properties are located in 35 states, totaling approximately 4.4 million square feet in the aggregate and were approximately 92.3% leased, excluding real estate assets held for sale, at March 31, 2024 with a weighted average remaining lease term of approximately 6.9 years.

About Host Hotels & Resorts

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the management of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Brazil, and Canada. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.