EARN vs. NYMT, UHT, FPI, OLP, LAND, IVR, ORC, PKST, CLDT, and CTO
Should you be buying Ellington Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Credit include New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Farmland Partners (FPI), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), and CTO Realty Growth (CTO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
New York Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ:NYMT) and Ellington Credit (NYSE:EARN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Ellington Credit has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ellington Credit's net margin of -44.65%. New York Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 12.21% beat Ellington Credit's return on equity.
New York Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Ellington Credit pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. New York Mortgage Trust pays out -43.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ellington Credit pays out 331.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, New York Mortgage Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Ellington Credit. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for New York Mortgage Trust and 0 mentions for Ellington Credit. Ellington Credit's average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat New York Mortgage Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that New York Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ellington Credit has lower revenue, but higher earnings than New York Mortgage Trust. New York Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ellington Credit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New York Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ellington Credit has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
54.9% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Ellington Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Ellington Credit 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.
New York Mortgage Trust currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.46%. Ellington Credit has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 13.67%. Given Ellington Credit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe New York Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Ellington Credit.
New York Mortgage Trust received 163 more outperform votes than Ellington Credit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.23% of users gave New York Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 51.35% of users gave Ellington Credit an outperform vote.
Summary
New York Mortgage Trust beats Ellington Credit on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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