CMCT vs. CLPR, SELF, LOAN, AHT, CHMI, ACR, SOHO, GIPR, NYC, and LFT
Should you be buying Creative Media & Community Trust Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. include Clipper Realty (CLPR), Global Self Storage (SELF), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (NASDAQ:CMCT) and Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Clipper Realty has higher revenue and earnings than Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. Clipper Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Creative Media & Community Trust Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Clipper Realty had 5 more articles in the media than Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Clipper Realty and 3 mentions for Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Clipper Realty's score of 0.12 indicating that Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Clipper Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays out -10.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clipper Realty pays out -108.6% 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.
Clipper Realty has a net margin of -3.01% compared to Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s net margin of -40.66%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s return on equity of 0.00% beat Clipper Realty's return on equity.
Clipper Realty received 84 more outperform votes than Creative Media & Community Trust Co. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave Clipper Realty an outperform vote while only 44.74% of users gave Creative Media & Community Trust Co. an outperform vote.
28.3% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.6% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 52.3% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by 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.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clipper Realty has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. presently has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.87%. Clipper Realty has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 136.91%. Given Clipper Realty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Clipper Realty is more favorable than Creative Media & Community Trust Co..
Summary
Clipper Realty beats Creative Media & Community Trust Co. on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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