PSTL vs. PMT, AIV, MFA, ALX, UMH, FBRT, CSR, PGRE, NXRT, and PLYM
Should you be buying Postal Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Postal Realty Trust include PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), MFA Financial (MFA), Alexander's (ALX), UMH Properties (UMH), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Centerspace (CSR), Paramount Group (PGRE), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), and Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT) and Postal Realty Trust (NYSE:PSTL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Postal Realty Trust. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Postal Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Postal Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. 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. Postal Realty Trust pays out 960.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Postal Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 45.19% compared to PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of 5.42%. Postal Realty Trust's return on equity of 13.25% beat PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Postal Realty Trust has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Postal Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Postal Realty Trust. Postal Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 1.08 indicating that PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust currently has a consensus price target of $14.92, suggesting a potential upside of 9.36%. Postal Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.97%. Given PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Postal Realty Trust is more favorable than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust received 371 more outperform votes than Postal Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Postal Realty Trust an outperform vote.
67.4% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.9% of Postal Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Postal Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust beats Postal Realty Trust on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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