Comparing Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) and Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR)

Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) and Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Diversified Healthcare Trust and Clipper Realty, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diversified Healthcare Trust	1	2	2	1	2.50
Clipper Realty	0	1	0	0	2.00

Diversified Healthcare Trust currently has a consensus price target of $9.17, indicating a potential upside of 4.17%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Clipper Realty.

Volatility and Risk

Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.32, indicating that its stock price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clipper Realty has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Clipper Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -3.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clipper Realty pays out -46.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Clipper Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diversified Healthcare Trust	-21.10%	-18.75%	-7.09%
Clipper Realty	-7.10%	N/A	-0.87%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Clipper Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 53.0% of Clipper Realty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Diversified Healthcare Trust and Clipper Realty”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diversified Healthcare Trust	$1.52 billion	1.40	-$285.89 million	($1.33)	-6.62
Clipper Realty	$151.92 million	0.35	-$19.90 million	($0.81)	-4.04

Clipper Realty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clipper Realty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Clipper Realty beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Diversified Healthcare Trust

Diversified Healthcare Trust is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the ownership of senior living communities, medical office buildings, and wellness centers. It operates through the following segments: Office Portfolio, Senior Housing Operating Portfolio (SHOP), and Non-Segment. The Office Portfolio segment consists of medical office properties leased to medical providers and other medical related businesses, as well as life science properties leased to biotech laboratories and other similar tenants. The SHOP segment manages senior living communities that offers short term and long term residential care, and other services for residents where it pay fees to the operator to manage the communities for its account. The company was founded on December 16, 1998 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

About Clipper Realty

Clipper Realty Inc. (NYSE: CLPR) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company that acquires, owns, manages, operates, and repositions multifamily residential and commercial properties in the New York metropolitan area, with a portfolio in Manhattan and Brooklyn.