Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) & InvenTrust Properties (NYSE:IVT) Head to Head Comparison

Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and InvenTrust Properties (NYSE:IVT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of InvenTrust Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of InvenTrust Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Community Healthcare Trust and InvenTrust Properties, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Community Healthcare Trust	0	3	1	0	2.25
InvenTrust Properties	0	2	5	0	2.71

Community Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.73%. InvenTrust Properties has a consensus price target of $32.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.48%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than InvenTrust Properties.

Risk and Volatility

Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InvenTrust Properties has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. InvenTrust Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 2,728.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. InvenTrust Properties pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Healthcare Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and InvenTrust Properties has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Community Healthcare Trust and InvenTrust Properties”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Community Healthcare Trust	$121.19 million	4.05	$5.10 million	$0.07	245.53
InvenTrust Properties	$299.17 million	8.44	$111.42 million	$1.43	22.72

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

Profitability

This table compares Community Healthcare Trust and InvenTrust Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Community Healthcare Trust	4.21%	1.16%	0.52%
InvenTrust Properties	37.24%	6.22%	4.11%

Summary

InvenTrust Properties beats Community Healthcare Trust on 12 of the 17 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 InvenTrust Properties

InvenTrust Properties Corp. (the “Company,” “IVT,” or “InvenTrust”) is a premier Sun Belt, multi-tenant essential retail REIT that owns, leases, redevelops, acquires and manages grocery-anchored neighborhood and community centers as well as high-quality power centers that often have a grocery component. Management pursues the Company’s business strategy by acquiring retail properties in Sun Belt markets, opportunistically disposing of retail properties, maintaining a flexible capital structure, and enhancing environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) practices and standards. A trusted, local operator bringing real estate expertise to its tenant relationships, IVT has built a strong reputation with market participants across its portfolio. IVT is committed to leadership in ESG practices and has been a Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (“GRESB”) member since 2013.