Critical Contrast: Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI (OTCMKTS:IMQCF) & Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP)

Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI (OTCMKTS:IMQCF) and Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.6% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Hudson Pacific Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI and Hudson Pacific Properties”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.69	3.19
Hudson Pacific Properties	$831.10 million	0.95	-$561.69 million	($8.85)	-1.64

Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hudson Pacific Properties. Hudson Pacific Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI and Hudson Pacific Properties, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI	0	0	0	0	0.00
Hudson Pacific Properties	3	5	4	1	2.23

Hudson Pacific Properties has a consensus price target of $15.57, indicating a potential upside of 7.36%. Given Hudson Pacific Properties’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hudson Pacific Properties is more favorable than Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI.

Profitability

This table compares Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI and Hudson Pacific Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hudson Pacific Properties	-70.04%	-20.76%	-7.73%

Summary

Hudson Pacific Properties beats Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI

Colonial is a Spanish listed REIT company (SOCIMI), leader in the European Prime office market with presence in the main business areas of Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris with a prime office portfolio of more than 1 million sqm of GLA and assets under management with a value of more than 11bn.

About Hudson Pacific Properties

Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP) is a real estate investment trust serving dynamic tech and media tenants in global epicenters for these synergistic, converging and secular growth industries. Hudson Pacific's unique and high-barrier tech and media focus leverages a full-service, end-to-end value creation platform forged through deep strategic relationships and niche expertise across identifying, acquiring, transforming and developing properties into world-class amenitized, collaborative and sustainable office and studio space.