Contrasting American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) and InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE:IHT)

American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) and InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE:IHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for American Strategic Investment and InnSuites Hospitality Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Strategic Investment	0	1	0	0	2.00
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	0	0	0	0	N/A

American Strategic Investment currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential downside of 21.95%. Given American Strategic Investment’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe American Strategic Investment is more favorable than InnSuites Hospitality Trust.

Volatility & Risk

American Strategic Investment has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InnSuites Hospitality Trust has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares American Strategic Investment and InnSuites Hospitality Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Strategic Investment	-162.43%	-13.63%	-4.88%
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	-2.14%	-5.38%	-1.02%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares American Strategic Investment and InnSuites Hospitality Trust’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Strategic Investment	$62.71 million	0.42	-$105.92 million	($44.41)	-0.23
InnSuites Hospitality Trust	$7.57 million	1.97	$200,000.00	($0.02)	-82.55

InnSuites Hospitality Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Strategic Investment. InnSuites Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Strategic Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

48.0% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.5% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of InnSuites Hospitality Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

InnSuites Hospitality Trust beats American Strategic Investment on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About American Strategic Investment

American Strategic Investment Co. (NYSE: NYC) owns a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate located within the five boroughs of New York City.

About InnSuites Hospitality Trust

InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE American symbol: IHT) first listed on the NYSE in 1971 is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona is an unincorporated Ohio Business. Trust that owns and manages hotels under the InnSuites Hotels name. IHT qualifies as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) for tax treatment currently taxed as a corporation with the IRS. IHT has paid dividends each year since 1971 currently at $0.2/year. There are approximately 9 million shares of stock outstanding. In addition, there are approximately 3 million RRF Partnership units convertible 1 to 1 into IHT stock. Total shares and units are approximately 12 million.