REFI vs. PMT, AIV, ALX, UMH, MFA, FBRT, CSR, PGRE, NXRT, and ARR
Should you be buying Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance include PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), Alexander's (ALX), UMH Properties (UMH), MFA Financial (MFA), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Centerspace (CSR), Paramount Group (PGRE), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), and ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT) 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 businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of $14.92, suggesting a potential upside of 9.36%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. Given PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is more favorable than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust.
67.4% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust received 396 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 63.26% of users gave PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 62.74% compared to Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's net margin of 45.19%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity of 13.84% beat Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 106.7% 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.
In the previous week, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance beats PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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