AHT vs. SELF, LOAN, CLPR, SOHO, CMCT, GIPR, NYC, AJX, CHMI, and ACR
Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include Global Self Storage (SELF), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Great Ajax (AJX), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), and ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Global Self Storage (NASDAQ:SELF) and Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 346 more outperform votes than Global Self Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.28% of users gave Global Self Storage an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
Global Self Storage has a net margin of 24.11% compared to Global Self Storage's net margin of -13.13%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 6.09% beat Global Self Storage's return on equity.
In the previous week, Global Self Storage and Global Self Storage both had 7 articles in the media. Global Self Storage's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's score of 0.21 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Self Storage has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Self Storage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Self Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.9% of Global Self Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Global Self Storage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 101.61%. Given Global Self Storage's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Global Self Storage.
Summary
Global Self Storage beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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