Financial Analysis: Equity Commonwealth (NYSE:EQC) vs. Selectis Health (OTCMKTS:GBCS)

Profitability

This table compares Selectis Health and Equity Commonwealth’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Selectis Health	-14.37%	N/A	-14.59%
Equity Commonwealth	82.00%	2.09%	1.96%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Equity Commonwealth shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.2% of Selectis Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Equity Commonwealth shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Selectis Health and Equity Commonwealth”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Selectis Health	$36.78 million	N/A	-$3.97 million	($1.79)	-0.95
Equity Commonwealth	$58.43 million	36.94	$91.16 million	$0.39	51.56

Equity Commonwealth has higher revenue and earnings than Selectis Health. Selectis Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Commonwealth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Selectis Health has a beta of -0.33, indicating that its stock price is 133% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Commonwealth has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Equity Commonwealth beats Selectis Health on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Selectis Health

Selectis Health owns and/or operates healthcare facilities in Arkansas, Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, providing a wide array of living services, speech, occupational, physical therapies, social services, and other rehabilitation and healthcare services. Selectis focuses on building strategic relationships with local communities in which its partnership can improve the quality of care for facility residents. With its focused growth strategy, Selectis intends to deepen its American Southcentral and Southeastern market presence to better serve the aging population along a full continuum of care.

About Equity Commonwealth

Equity Commonwealth (NYSE: EQC) is a Chicago based, internally managed and self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) with commercial office properties in the United States. EQC's portfolio is comprised of four properties totaling 1.5 million square feet.