SL Green Realty (NYSE:SLG) & Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) Critical Contrast

SL Green Realty (NYSE:SLG) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.0% of SL Green Realty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of SL Green Realty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares SL Green Realty and Community Healthcare Trust”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SL Green Realty	$852.12 million	6.24	-$557.30 million	($2.50)	-32.28
Community Healthcare Trust	$115.61 million	4.59	$7.71 million	($0.09)	-208.78

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for SL Green Realty and Community Healthcare Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SL Green Realty	2	10	2	0	2.00
Community Healthcare Trust	0	2	1	0	2.33

SL Green Realty currently has a consensus price target of $65.57, suggesting a potential downside of 18.75%. Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.76%. Given Community Healthcare Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than SL Green Realty.

Profitability

This table compares SL Green Realty and Community Healthcare Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SL Green Realty	-16.78%	-3.76%	-1.46%
Community Healthcare Trust	-0.39%	-0.09%	-0.05%

Dividends

SL Green Realty pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. SL Green Realty pays out -120.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Healthcare Trust pays out -2,066.7% 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. Community Healthcare Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Risk & Volatility

SL Green Realty has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Community Healthcare Trust beats SL Green Realty on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SL Green Realty

3SL Green Realty Corp., Manhattan’s largest office landlord, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of June 30, 2022, SL Green held interests in 64 buildings totaling 34.4 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 26.3 million square feet of Manhattan buildings and 7.2 million square feet securing debt and preferred equity investments.

About Community Healthcare Trust

Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the Company”, we”, our”) was organized in the State of Maryland on March 28, 2014. The Company is a fully-integrated healthcare real estate company that owns and acquires real estate properties that are leased to hospitals, doctors, healthcare systems or other healthcare service providers. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had investments of approximately $1.1 billion in 197 real estate properties (including a portion of one property accounted for as a sales-type lease with a gross amount totaling approximately $3.0 million and two properties classified as an asset held for sale with an aggregate amount totaling approximately $7.5 million. The properties are located in 35 states, totaling approximately 4.4 million square feet in the aggregate and were approximately 92.3% leased, excluding real estate assets held for sale, at March 31, 2024 with a weighted average remaining lease term of approximately 6.9 years.