LFT vs. EARN, MDV, ACR, CHMI, AJX, MITT, CMCT, ONL, CLPR, and BHR
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Modiv Industrial (MDV), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), Great Ajax (AJX), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Clipper Realty (CLPR), and Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR). 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 better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.77%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.63, indicating a potential upside of 16.67%. Given Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lument Finance Trust is more favorable than Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT.
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.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. 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. Lument Finance Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Lument Finance Trust has a net margin of 17.02% compared to Lument Finance Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Lument Finance Trust's return on equity of 10.85% beat Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT and Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT both had 4 articles in the media. Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Lument Finance Trust's score of 0.48 indicating that Lument Finance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news 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 company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
Lument Finance Trust beats Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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