Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) & alstria office REIT (OTCMKTS:ALSRF) Critical Survey

Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) and alstria office REIT (OTCMKTS:ALSRF) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Hudson Pacific Properties and alstria office REIT’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hudson Pacific Properties	-70.04%	-20.76%	-7.73%
alstria office REIT	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hudson Pacific Properties and alstria office REIT”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hudson Pacific Properties	$831.10 million	0.90	-$561.69 million	($8.85)	-1.55
alstria office REIT	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

alstria office REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hudson Pacific Properties.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.6% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Hudson Pacific Properties and alstria office REIT, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hudson Pacific Properties	3	5	4	1	2.23
alstria office REIT	0	0	0	0	0.00

Hudson Pacific Properties currently has a consensus target price of $15.57, indicating a potential upside of 13.13%. Given Hudson Pacific Properties’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hudson Pacific Properties is more favorable than alstria office REIT.

Summary

Hudson Pacific Properties beats alstria office REIT on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hudson Pacific Properties

Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP) is a real estate investment trust serving dynamic tech and media tenants in global epicenters for these synergistic, converging and secular growth industries. Hudson Pacific's unique and high-barrier tech and media focus leverages a full-service, end-to-end value creation platform forged through deep strategic relationships and niche expertise across identifying, acquiring, transforming and developing properties into world-class amenitized, collaborative and sustainable office and studio space.

About alstria office REIT

alstria office REIT AG is the leading real-estate operator focusing solely on German office property in selected German markets. Our strategy is based on the ownership and an active management of our properties throughout their entire life cycle, strong added-value services to our customers and deep knowledge of the markets in which we operate. alstria strives for sustainable long-term value creation while taking advantage of short-term arbitrage of inefficiencies in the real estate markets.