PGRE vs. SVC, CSR, FBRT, CIM, PLYM, MFA, UMH, ARR, NXRT, and BFS
Should you be buying Paramount Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Group include Service Properties Trust (SVC), Centerspace (CSR), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), and Saul Centers (BFS). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) and Paramount Group (NYSE:PGRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Paramount Group pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Service Properties Trust pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Group pays out -12.1% 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. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Service Properties Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Paramount Group. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paramount Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Properties Trust has a net margin of -1.75% compared to Service Properties Trust's net margin of -33.85%. Paramount Group's return on equity of -2.50% beat Service Properties Trust's return on equity.
Service Properties Trust currently has a consensus price target of $7.92, indicating a potential upside of 36.03%. Paramount Group has a consensus price target of $4.60, indicating a potential downside of 3.16%. Given Paramount Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Paramount Group.
Service Properties Trust received 74 more outperform votes than Paramount Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.96% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote while only 48.02% of users gave Paramount Group an outperform vote.
77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Paramount Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Paramount Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Paramount Group had 1 more articles in the media than Service Properties Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Paramount Group and 11 mentions for Service Properties Trust. Service Properties Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Paramount Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Paramount Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Group has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Service Properties Trust beats Paramount Group on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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