CAL vs. NRR, RGL, GR1T, RESI, PSDL, PCA, AEWU, SERE, HKLD, and FOXT
Should you be buying Capital & Regional stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital & Regional include NewRiver REIT (NRR), Regional REIT (RGL), Grit Real Estate Income Group (GR1T), Residential Secure Income (RESI), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL), Palace Capital (PCA), Aew Uk Reit (AEWU), Schroder European Real Estate Inv Trust (SERE), Hongkong Land (HKLD), and Foxtons Group (FOXT). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
NewRiver REIT (LON:NRR) and Capital & Regional (LON:CAL) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
55.4% of NewRiver REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of Capital & Regional shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of NewRiver REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.3% of Capital & Regional shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NewRiver REIT received 154 more outperform votes than Capital & Regional when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.50% of users gave NewRiver REIT an outperform vote while only 74.21% of users gave Capital & Regional an outperform vote.
NewRiver REIT presently has a consensus price target of GBX 105, suggesting a potential upside of 41.32%. Capital & Regional has a consensus price target of GBX 65, suggesting a potential upside of 31.31%. Given Capital & Regional's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NewRiver REIT is more favorable than Capital & Regional.
In the previous week, Capital & Regional had 3 more articles in the media than NewRiver REIT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Capital & Regional and 1 mentions for NewRiver REIT. NewRiver REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Capital & Regional's score of 0.00 indicating that Capital & Regional is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NewRiver REIT has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital & Regional has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NewRiver REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Capital & Regional pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. NewRiver REIT pays out -8,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital & Regional pays out -12,000.0% 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. Capital & Regional is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Capital & Regional has a net margin of -13.69% compared to Capital & Regional's net margin of -36.78%. NewRiver REIT's return on equity of -4.54% beat Capital & Regional's return on equity.
Capital & Regional has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NewRiver REIT. Capital & Regional is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NewRiver REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Capital & Regional beats NewRiver REIT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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