Head to Head Survey: FrontView REIT (NYSE:FVR) & Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE:OHI)

FrontView REIT (NYSE:FVR) and Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE:OHI) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for FrontView REIT and Omega Healthcare Investors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FrontView REIT	2	3	3	1	2.33
Omega Healthcare Investors	1	7	5	1	2.43

FrontView REIT presently has a consensus target price of $17.07, indicating a potential downside of 1.86%. Omega Healthcare Investors has a consensus target price of $47.83, indicating a potential upside of 3.18%. Given Omega Healthcare Investors’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Omega Healthcare Investors is more favorable than FrontView REIT.

Profitability

This table compares FrontView REIT and Omega Healthcare Investors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FrontView REIT	-5.71%	-0.76%	-0.45%
Omega Healthcare Investors	49.59%	11.35%	5.77%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

65.3% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of FrontView REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Omega Healthcare Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

FrontView REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Omega Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. FrontView REIT pays out -390.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Omega Healthcare Investors pays out 138.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares FrontView REIT and Omega Healthcare Investors”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FrontView REIT	$67.11 million	5.78	-$3.83 million	($0.22)	-79.07
Omega Healthcare Investors	$1.19 billion	11.60	$572.03 million	$1.93	24.02

Omega Healthcare Investors has higher revenue and earnings than FrontView REIT. FrontView REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Omega Healthcare Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

FrontView REIT has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omega Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Omega Healthcare Investors beats FrontView REIT on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About FrontView REIT

FrontView REIT specializes in real estate investing.

About Omega Healthcare Investors

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. engages in the provision of financing and capital to the long-term healthcare industry with a particular focus on skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, rehabilitation and acute care facilities, and medical office buildings. The company was founded on March 31, 1992 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, MD.