EARN vs. LFT, MDV, ACR, CHMI, MITT, AJX, ONL, BHR, CMCT, and CIO
Should you be buying Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT include Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Modiv Industrial (MDV), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Great Ajax (AJX), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), and City Office REIT (CIO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (NYSE:EARN) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.91%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.63, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Given Lument Finance Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lument Finance Trust is more favorable than Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lument Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT. Lument Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT pays out 369.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lument Finance Trust pays out 93.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT received 57 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.06% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 51.35% of users gave Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT an outperform vote.
Lument Finance Trust has a net margin of 17.02% compared to Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's net margin of 0.00%. Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's return on equity of 10.85% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lument Finance Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lument Finance Trust and 1 mentions for Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT. Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Lument Finance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
20.4% of Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lument Finance Trust beats Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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