CMCT vs. CLPR, LOAN, AJX, CHMI, ACR, SELF, AHT, LFT, SOHO, and EARN
Should you be buying Creative Media & Community Trust Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. include Clipper Realty (CLPR), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Great Ajax (AJX), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Global Self Storage (SELF), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), and Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR) and Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (NASDAQ:CMCT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Clipper Realty has a net margin of -4.27% compared to Clipper Realty's net margin of -40.66%. Clipper Realty's return on equity of 0.00% beat Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s return on equity.
Clipper Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Clipper Realty pays out -84.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays out -10.2% 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. Clipper Realty has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Clipper Realty currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 134.57%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.21%. Given Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Clipper Realty is more favorable than Creative Media & Community Trust Co..
Clipper Realty has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Clipper Realty had 1 more articles in the media than Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Clipper Realty and 1 mentions for Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. Clipper Realty's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s score of 0.00 indicating that Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Clipper Realty received 84 more outperform votes than Creative Media & Community Trust Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave Clipper Realty an outperform vote while only 44.74% of users gave Creative Media & Community Trust Co. an outperform vote.
37.6% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.3% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.6% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clipper Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. Clipper Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Creative Media & Community Trust Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clipper Realty beats Creative Media & Community Trust Co. on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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