KREF vs. INN, CHCT, TRTX, WSR, NYMT, GMRE, DHC, DX, FPI, and BRSP
Should you be buying KKR Real Estate Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust include Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Whitestone REIT (WSR), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Dynex Capital (DX), Farmland Partners (FPI), and BrightSpire Capital (BRSP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (NYSE:KREF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.
Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.04% compared to Summit Hotel Properties' net margin of -1.39%. Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity of 10.38% beat KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's return on equity.
Summit Hotel Properties received 156 more outperform votes than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave KKR Real Estate Finance Trust an outperform vote.
Summit Hotel Properties has higher revenue and earnings than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Summit Hotel Properties had 4 more articles in the media than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties and 0 mentions for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. Summit Hotel Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's score of 0.26 indicating that KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $11.96, indicating a potential upside of 23.85%. Given Summit Hotel Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays out -217.4% 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. Summit Hotel Properties has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Summit Hotel Properties beats KKR Real Estate Finance Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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