SELF vs. AHT, LOAN, CLPR, CMCT, SOHO, GIPR, NYC, ACR, CHMI, and LFT
Should you be buying Global Self Storage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Self Storage include Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) and Global Self Storage (NASDAQ:SELF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of Global Self Storage shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Global Self Storage shares are held 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.
Ashford Hospitality Trust currently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 96.08%. Given Global Self Storage's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Global Self Storage.
In the previous week, Global Self Storage had 1 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Global Self Storage and 0 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. Global Self Storage's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's score of 1.04 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 346 more outperform votes than Global Self Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.28% of users gave Global Self Storage an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, meaning that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Self Storage has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Self Storage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Self Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Self Storage has a net margin of 18.15% compared to Global Self Storage's net margin of -3.51%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 4.60% beat Global Self Storage's return on equity.
Summary
Global Self Storage beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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