Head-To-Head Contrast: Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) and NSI (OTCMKTS:NIUWF)

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NSI and Hudson Pacific Properties”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NSI	N/A	N/A	N/A	C($1.41)	-14.00
Hudson Pacific Properties	$831.10 million	0.86	-$561.69 million	($8.85)	-1.48

NSI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hudson Pacific Properties. NSI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudson Pacific Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares NSI and Hudson Pacific Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for NSI and Hudson Pacific Properties, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NSI	1	0	0	0	1.00
Hudson Pacific Properties	3	5	4	1	2.23

Hudson Pacific Properties has a consensus target price of $15.57, suggesting a potential upside of 18.56%. Given Hudson Pacific Properties’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hudson Pacific Properties is more favorable than NSI.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

28.8% of NSI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Hudson Pacific Properties beats NSI on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NSI

NSI N.V. is a specialist commercial property investor and the only listed real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on well-located offices in economic growth regions in The Netherlands. The NSI team aims to maximise returns for its shareholders through pro-active management of its investment portfolio, value-add initiatives, and disciplined asset rotation. The portfolio, with a value of over one billion euros, is underpinned by a strong balance sheet, with significant capacity to fund both internal and external growth. By investing in an attractive space and a high level of services for its customers, NSI can generate sustainable and growing revenues to support an attractive level of dividends.

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.