PSTL vs. REFI, BRT, ILPT, NLOP, NREF, ACRE, PINE, CTO, ONL, and CIO
Should you be buying Postal Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Postal Realty Trust include Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), BRT Apartments (BRT), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Orion Office REIT (ONL), and City Office REIT (CIO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Postal Realty Trust (NYSE:PSTL) and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (NASDAQ:REFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Postal Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Postal Realty Trust pays out 960.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays out 94.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Postal Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.53%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.19%. Given Postal Realty Trust's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Postal Realty Trust is more favorable than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance.
Postal Realty Trust has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 62.74% compared to Postal Realty Trust's net margin of 5.42%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 13.84% beat Postal Realty Trust's return on equity.
Postal Realty Trust received 25 more outperform votes than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Postal Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Postal Realty Trust. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Postal Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
57.9% of Postal Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of Postal Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Postal Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Postal Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Postal Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's score of 0.84 indicating that Postal Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance beats Postal Realty Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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