FBRT vs. SVC, PGRE, CSR, CIM, MFA, PLYM, UMH, AIV, ARR, and NXRT
Should you be buying Franklin BSP Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin BSP Realty Trust include Service Properties Trust (SVC), Paramount Group (PGRE), Centerspace (CSR), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), UMH Properties (UMH), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) and Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Service Properties Trust pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays out 107.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Service Properties Trust presently has a consensus price target of $7.92, suggesting a potential upside of 36.03%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 14.43%. Given Franklin BSP Realty Trust's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Franklin BSP Realty Trust.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a net margin of 53.82% compared to Franklin BSP Realty Trust's net margin of -1.75%. Service Properties Trust's return on equity of 14.32% beat Franklin BSP Realty Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Service Properties Trust had 10 more articles in the media than Franklin BSP Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Service Properties Trust and 1 mentions for Franklin BSP Realty Trust. Franklin BSP Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Service Properties Trust's score of 0.22 indicating that Service Properties Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Service Properties Trust. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin BSP Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Properties Trust received 280 more outperform votes than Franklin BSP Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Franklin BSP Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Franklin BSP Realty Trust beats Service Properties Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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