REFI vs. PSTL, ILPT, BRT, NLOP, NREF, ACRE, PINE, ONL, CTO, and CIO
Should you be buying Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance include Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), BRT Apartments (BRT), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Orion Office REIT (ONL), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), and City Office REIT (CIO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Postal Realty Trust (NYSE:PSTL) and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (NASDAQ:REFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 62.74% compared to Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's net margin of 5.42%. Postal Realty Trust's return on equity of 13.84% beat Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Postal Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.61%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.61%. Given Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Postal Realty Trust is more favorable than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance.
In the previous week, Postal Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Postal Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Postal Realty Trust's score of 0.84 indicating that Postal Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.9% of Postal Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Postal Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Postal Realty Trust has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Postal Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Postal Realty Trust pays out 960.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays out 94.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Postal Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Postal Realty Trust. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Postal Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Postal Realty Trust received 25 more outperform votes than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Postal Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance beats Postal Realty Trust on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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