National Healthcare Properties (NHP) & Its Rivals Financial Review

National Healthcare Properties (NASDAQ:NHP) is one of 27 public companies in the “REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare National Healthcare Properties to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for National Healthcare Properties and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
National Healthcare Properties	0	4	5	0	2.56
National Healthcare Properties Competitors	95	699	173	1	2.08

National Healthcare Properties presently has a consensus target price of $17.13, suggesting a potential upside of 16.58%. As a group, “REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS” companies have a potential upside of 60.61%. Given National Healthcare Properties’ rivals higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe National Healthcare Properties has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares National Healthcare Properties and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
National Healthcare Properties	$342.12 million	N/A	N/A
National Healthcare Properties Competitors	$149.42 million	-$39.82 million	-4.41

National Healthcare Properties has higher revenue and earnings than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares National Healthcare Properties and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
National Healthcare Properties	N/A	N/A	N/A
National Healthcare Properties Competitors	-180.44%	-27.58%	-4.43%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

94.9% of National Healthcare Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of National Healthcare Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.7% of shares of all “REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

National Healthcare Properties beats its rivals on 8 of the 11 factors compared.