Mackenzie Realty Capital (NASDAQ:MKZR) & Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) Head to Head Contrast

Mackenzie Realty Capital (NASDAQ:MKZR) and Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Mackenzie Realty Capital and Healthcare Realty Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mackenzie Realty Capital	1	0	0	0	1.00
Healthcare Realty Trust	1	7	3	0	2.18

Healthcare Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $18.89, suggesting a potential upside of 8.33%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Healthcare Realty Trust is more favorable than Mackenzie Realty Capital.

Dividends

Mackenzie Realty Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 53.6%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Mackenzie Realty Capital pays out -18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -90.6% 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Mackenzie Realty Capital and Healthcare Realty Trust”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mackenzie Realty Capital	$21.65 million	0.32	-$25.92 million	($10.80)	-0.35
Healthcare Realty Trust	$1.27 billion	4.83	-$654.48 million	($1.06)	-16.45

Mackenzie Realty Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mackenzie Realty Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Mackenzie Realty Capital and Healthcare Realty Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mackenzie Realty Capital	N/A	-15.16%	-6.24%
Healthcare Realty Trust	-30.51%	-7.32%	-3.56%

Summary

Healthcare Realty Trust beats Mackenzie Realty Capital on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mackenzie Realty Capital

MacKenzie Realty Capital Inc. is a REIT which focused on investing in multifamily housing and office real estate properties located principally in the United States. MacKenzie Realty Capital Inc. is based in ORINDA, Calif.

About Healthcare Realty Trust

Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc. provides real estate investment services. It owns, leases, manages, acquires, finances, develops, and redevelops income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States of America. The company was founded by David R. Emery in 1992 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.