ONL vs. CIO, BHR, MITT, FSP, PINE, GPMT, NREF, EARN, MDV, and AJX
Should you be buying Orion Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion Office REIT include City Office REIT (CIO), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Modiv Industrial (MDV), and Great Ajax (AJX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Orion Office REIT (NYSE:ONL) and City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Orion Office REIT has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City Office REIT has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Orion Office REIT had 8 more articles in the media than City Office REIT. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Orion Office REIT and 2 mentions for City Office REIT. Orion Office REIT's average media sentiment score of -0.09 beat City Office REIT's score of -0.25 indicating that Orion Office REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Orion Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Orion Office REIT pays out -30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. City Office REIT pays out -142.9% 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.
City Office REIT received 284 more outperform votes than Orion Office REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Orion Office REIT an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.
City Office REIT has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.44%. Given City Office REIT's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe City Office REIT is more favorable than Orion Office REIT.
City Office REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orion Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orion Office REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City Office REIT has a net margin of -2.24% compared to Orion Office REIT's net margin of -38.87%. City Office REIT's return on equity of -0.60% beat Orion Office REIT's return on equity.
80.0% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Orion Office REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
City Office REIT beats Orion Office REIT on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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