CMTG vs. KW, EFC, AHH, GTY, HPP, FOR, FRPH, SRG, FPH, and TRC
Should you be buying Claros Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Claros Mortgage Trust include Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Ellington Financial (EFC), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Getty Realty (GTY), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), Forestar Group (FOR), FRP (FRPH), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Five Point (FPH), and Tejon Ranch (TRC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Kennedy-Wilson (NYSE:KW) and Claros Mortgage Trust (NYSE:CMTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Kennedy-Wilson presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.89%. Claros Mortgage Trust has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.77%. Given Kennedy-Wilson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Claros Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Kennedy-Wilson.
Claros Mortgage Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kennedy-Wilson. Claros Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kennedy-Wilson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kennedy-Wilson pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Claros Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Kennedy-Wilson pays out -39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Claros Mortgage Trust pays out -161.3% 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. Claros Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Claros Mortgage Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Kennedy-Wilson. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Claros Mortgage Trust and 7 mentions for Kennedy-Wilson. Kennedy-Wilson's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Claros Mortgage Trust's score of 0.67 indicating that Claros Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Claros Mortgage Trust has a net margin of 1.97% compared to Claros Mortgage Trust's net margin of -55.65%. Kennedy-Wilson's return on equity of 2.01% beat Claros Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Kennedy-Wilson has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Claros Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.7% of Kennedy-Wilson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.7% of Kennedy-Wilson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kennedy-Wilson received 389 more outperform votes than Claros Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.77% of users gave Kennedy-Wilson an outperform vote while only 17.24% of users gave Claros Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Claros Mortgage Trust beats Kennedy-Wilson on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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