Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) vs. Four Corners Property Trust (NYSE:FCPT) Head-To-Head Comparison

Four Corners Property Trust (NYSE:FCPT) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Dividends

Four Corners Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Four Corners Property Trust pays out 133.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Community Healthcare Trust pays out 2,728.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Four Corners Property Trust has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Community Healthcare Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Volatility & Risk

Four Corners Property Trust has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Four Corners Property Trust and Community Healthcare Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Four Corners Property Trust	0	5	2	0	2.29
Community Healthcare Trust	0	3	1	0	2.25

Four Corners Property Trust currently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.68%. Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $18.33, indicating a potential upside of 7.32%. Given Four Corners Property Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Four Corners Property Trust is more favorable than Community Healthcare Trust.

Profitability

This table compares Four Corners Property Trust and Community Healthcare Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Four Corners Property Trust	38.20%	7.39%	4.00%
Community Healthcare Trust	4.21%	1.16%	0.52%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

98.7% of Four Corners Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Four Corners Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Four Corners Property Trust and Community Healthcare Trust”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Four Corners Property Trust	$294.13 million	9.53	$112.36 million	$1.10	23.21
Community Healthcare Trust	$121.19 million	4.03	$5.10 million	$0.07	244.04

Four Corners Property Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Community Healthcare Trust. Four Corners Property Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Four Corners Property Trust beats Community Healthcare Trust on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Four Corners Property Trust

Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. engages in the owning, acquisition, and leasing of properties for use in the restaurant and food-service related industries. It operates through the Real Estate Operations and Restaurant Operations segments. The Real Estate Operations segment consists of rental revenues generated by leasing restaurant properties. The Restaurant Operations segment includes the Kerrow Restaurant operating business. The company was founded on July 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, CA.

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.