Chartwell Retirement Residences (CWSRF) and Its Rivals Head to Head Review

Chartwell Retirement Residences (OTCMKTS:CWSRF) is one of 235 public companies in the “Healthcare Providers & Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Chartwell Retirement Residences to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Dividends

Chartwell Retirement Residences pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Chartwell Retirement Residences pays out -1,611.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.6% and pay out 25.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Chartwell Retirement Residences is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Chartwell Retirement Residences and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chartwell Retirement Residences	0	0	4	0	3.00
Chartwell Retirement Residences Competitors	1782	7528	12964	787	2.55

As a group, “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies have a potential upside of 14.27%. Given Chartwell Retirement Residences’ peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chartwell Retirement Residences has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Chartwell Retirement Residences and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chartwell Retirement Residences	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chartwell Retirement Residences Competitors	-5.56%	-139.04%	-0.34%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

37.8% of Chartwell Retirement Residences shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Chartwell Retirement Residences and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chartwell Retirement Residences	N/A	N/A	-531.48
Chartwell Retirement Residences Competitors	$20.75 billion	$281.27 million	0.93

Chartwell Retirement Residences’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Chartwell Retirement Residences. Chartwell Retirement Residences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Chartwell Retirement Residences beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Chartwell Retirement Residences

Chartwell is in the business of serving and caring for Canada’s seniors, committed to its vision of Making People’s Lives BETTER and to providing a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life experience for its residents. Chartwell is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate trust which indirectly owns and operates a complete range of seniors housing communities, from independent living through to assisted living and long term care. Chartwell is the largest operator in Canada, serving over 25,000 residents in four provinces across the country.