CTO vs. CLDT, ACRE, IVR, ORC, NLOP, BRT, LAND, PKST, PSTL, and OLP
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), BRT Apartments (BRT), Gladstone Land (LAND), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), and One Liberty Properties (OLP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) and CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Chatham Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Chatham Lodging Trust pays out -233.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CTO Realty Growth pays out 276.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CTO Realty Growth has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. CTO Realty Growth is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Chatham Lodging Trust presently has a consensus price target of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 55.76%. CTO Realty Growth has a consensus price target of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 10.22%. Given CTO Realty Growth's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chatham Lodging Trust is more favorable than CTO Realty Growth.
Chatham Lodging Trust received 375 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Chatham Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 29.27% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CTO Realty Growth had 1 more articles in the media than Chatham Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for CTO Realty Growth and 1 mentions for Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat CTO Realty Growth's score of 0.00 indicating that CTO Realty Growth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 15.43% compared to CTO Realty Growth's net margin of 0.73%. Chatham Lodging Trust's return on equity of 3.70% beat CTO Realty Growth's return on equity.
CTO Realty Growth has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTO Realty Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.4% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chatham Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CTO Realty Growth beats Chatham Lodging Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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