Financial Survey: Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) & Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:HTIBP)

Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) and Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:HTIBP) are both real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Dividends

Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 290.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Community Healthcare Trust and Healthcare Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Community Healthcare Trust	0	2	1	0	2.33
Healthcare Trust	0	0	0	0	N/A

Community Healthcare Trust presently has a consensus target price of $20.75, indicating a potential upside of 16.90%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Healthcare Trust.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Community Healthcare Trust and Healthcare Trust”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Community Healthcare Trust	$114.71 million	4.29	$7.71 million	$0.64	27.73
Healthcare Trust	$349.58 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Community Healthcare Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Healthcare Trust.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Community Healthcare Trust	1.13%	0.25%	0.13%
Healthcare Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Community Healthcare Trust beats Healthcare Trust on 7 of the 10 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 Healthcare Trust

Healthcare Trust, Inc. is a publicly registered real estate investment trust focused on acquiring a diversified portfolio of healthcare real estate, with an emphasis on seniors housing and medical office buildings, located in the United States.