AHT vs. LOAN, SELF, CLPR, CMCT, SOHO, GIPR, NYC, CHMI, ACR, and LFT
Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Global Self Storage (SELF), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) and Manhattan Bridge Capital (NASDAQ:LOAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 288 more outperform votes than Manhattan Bridge Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.83% of users gave Manhattan Bridge Capital an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ashford Hospitality Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Manhattan Bridge Capital. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust and 3 mentions for Manhattan Bridge Capital. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Manhattan Bridge Capital's score of 0.44 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has a net margin of 57.10% compared to Ashford Hospitality Trust's net margin of -3.51%. Manhattan Bridge Capital's return on equity of 13.26% beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity.
41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.4% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manhattan Bridge Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, meaning that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manhattan Bridge Capital has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ashford Hospitality Trust currently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 89.39%. Given Ashford Hospitality Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Manhattan Bridge Capital.
Summary
Manhattan Bridge Capital beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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