Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) versus Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) Head to Head Survey

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) and Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Modiv Industrial, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	1	3	2	0	2.17
Modiv Industrial	0	0	1	0	3.00

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust presently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.39%. Modiv Industrial has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.21%. Given Pebblebrook Hotel Trust’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is more favorable than Modiv Industrial.

Risk & Volatility

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Modiv Industrial has a beta of -0.21, suggesting that its share price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Modiv Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -13.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Modiv Industrial pays out -1,063.6% 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. Modiv Industrial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Modiv Industrial’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	0.25%	0.13%	0.06%
Modiv Industrial	6.72%	1.42%	0.61%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

8.2% of Modiv Industrial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Modiv Industrial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Modiv Industrial”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	$1.42 billion	1.04	-$78.02 million	($0.29)	-42.36
Modiv Industrial	$46.94 million	3.10	-$6.61 million	($0.11)	-137.27

Modiv Industrial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Modiv Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Modiv Industrial beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust ("REIT") and the largest owner of urban and resort lifestyle hotels and resorts in the United States. The Company owns 47 hotels and resorts, totaling approximately 12,200 guest rooms across 13 urban and resort markets.

About Modiv Industrial

Modiv Industrial, Inc. is an internally managed REIT that is focused on single-tenant net-lease industrial manufacturing real estate. The Company actively acquires critical industrial manufacturing properties with long-term leases to tenants that fuel the national economy and strengthen the nation's supply chains.