Contrasting STAG Industrial (NYSE:STAG) & Selectis Health (OTCMKTS:GBCS)

STAG Industrial (NYSE:STAG) and Selectis Health (OTCMKTS:GBCS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.7% of STAG Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of STAG Industrial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of Selectis Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

STAG Industrial has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Selectis Health has a beta of -0.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for STAG Industrial and Selectis Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
STAG Industrial	0	4	4	0	2.50
Selectis Health	0	0	0	0	0.00

STAG Industrial presently has a consensus price target of $40.38, suggesting a potential upside of 16.94%. Given STAG Industrial’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe STAG Industrial is more favorable than Selectis Health.

Profitability

This table compares STAG Industrial and Selectis Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
STAG Industrial	23.94%	5.27%	2.81%
Selectis Health	-14.37%	N/A	-14.59%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares STAG Industrial and Selectis Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
STAG Industrial	$707.84 million	8.89	$192.85 million	$0.99	34.87
Selectis Health	$36.78 million	0.17	-$3.97 million	($1.79)	-1.12

STAG Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Selectis Health. Selectis Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STAG Industrial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

STAG Industrial beats Selectis Health on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About STAG Industrial

STAG Industrial, Inc. is a real estate investment company, which engages in acquiring, owning, and managing single-tenant, industrial real estate assets. It offers industrial real estate operating platform to real estate ownership. The company was founded by Benjamin S. Butcher on July 21, 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

About Selectis Health

Selectis Health owns and/or operates healthcare facilities in Arkansas, Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, providing a wide array of living services, speech, occupational, physical therapies, social services, and other rehabilitation and healthcare services. Selectis focuses on building strategic relationships with local communities in which its partnership can improve the quality of care for facility residents. With its focused growth strategy, Selectis intends to deepen its American Southcentral and Southeastern market presence to better serve the aging population along a full continuum of care.