NREF vs. GPMT, PINE, FSP, MITT, ILPT, CIO, ONL, BHR, REFI, and PSTL
Should you be buying NexPoint Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Real Estate Finance include Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), City Office REIT (CIO), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), and Postal Realty Trust (PSTL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) and Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE:GPMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.0%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.5%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out -363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays out -26.0% 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.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Point Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Granite Point Mortgage Trust had 4 more articles in the media than NexPoint Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Granite Point Mortgage Trust and 8 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance. Granite Point Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's score of -0.31 indicating that Granite Point Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust received 184 more outperform votes than NexPoint Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.33% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Granite Point Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.0% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 23.44% compared to Granite Point Mortgage Trust's net margin of -40.36%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 3.70% beat Granite Point Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.02%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $6.56, suggesting a potential upside of 80.29%. Given Granite Point Mortgage Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Granite Point Mortgage Trust is more favorable than NexPoint Real Estate Finance.
Summary
NexPoint Real Estate Finance beats Granite Point Mortgage Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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