BXMT vs. SLG, GRP.U, CTRE, HHH, CUZ, MAC, IRT, EPR, SKT, and HASI
Should you be buying Blackstone Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackstone Mortgage Trust include SL Green Realty (SLG), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), Howard Hughes (HHH), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Macerich (MAC), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), EPR Properties (EPR), Tanger (SKT), and Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) and SL Green Realty (NYSE:SLG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a net margin of 0.24% compared to SL Green Realty's net margin of -64.45%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 10.72% beat SL Green Realty's return on equity.
SL Green Realty received 91 more outperform votes than Blackstone Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.79% of users gave Blackstone Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 60.87% of users gave SL Green Realty an outperform vote.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SL Green Realty has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
64.2% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of SL Green Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of SL Green Realty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus target price of $19.93, suggesting a potential upside of 11.27%. SL Green Realty has a consensus target price of $47.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.13%. Given Blackstone Mortgage Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Blackstone Mortgage Trust is more favorable than SL Green Realty.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SL Green Realty. SL Green Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. SL Green Realty pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays out 8,266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SL Green Realty pays out -36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Blackstone Mortgage Trust had 11 more articles in the media than SL Green Realty. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Blackstone Mortgage Trust and 8 mentions for SL Green Realty. SL Green Realty's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's score of 0.55 indicating that SL Green Realty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Blackstone Mortgage Trust beats SL Green Realty on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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