Highlands REIT (HHDS) versus Its Competitors Head to Head Comparison

Highlands REIT (OTCMKTS:HHDS) is one of 273 publicly-traded companies in the “Real estate investment trusts” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Highlands REIT to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Highlands REIT and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Highlands REIT	0	0	0	0	N/A
Highlands REIT Competitors	3599	13051	12822	304	2.33

As a group, “Real estate investment trusts” companies have a potential upside of 14.86%. Given Highlands REIT’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Highlands REIT has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.0% of Highlands REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of shares of all “Real estate investment trusts” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Highlands REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of shares of all “Real estate investment trusts” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Highlands REIT has a beta of 26.66, indicating that its stock price is 2,566% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Highlands REIT’s competitors have a beta of 1.24, indicating that their average stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Highlands REIT and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Highlands REIT	$30.98 million	-$10.30 million	-1.88
Highlands REIT Competitors	$978.09 million	$115.03 million	23.69

Highlands REIT’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Highlands REIT. Highlands REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Highlands REIT and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Highlands REIT	-33.24%	-4.51%	-3.04%
Highlands REIT Competitors	-1.87%	-4.06%	1.08%

Summary

Highlands REIT competitors beat Highlands REIT on 9 of the 10 factors compared.

About Highlands REIT

We are a self-advised and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) created to own and manage substantially all of the non-core investment properties previously owned and managed by our former parent, InvenTrust Properties Corp., a Maryland corporation (InvenTrust). On April 28, 2016, we were spun-off from InvenTrust through a pro rata distribution (the Distribution) by InvenTrust of 100% of the outstanding shares of our common stock to holders of InvenTrust's common stock. Prior to or concurrent with the separation, we and InvenTrust engaged in certain reorganization transactions that were designed to consolidate substantially all of InvenTrust's remaining non-core investment properties in Highlands.