PGRE vs. CSR, CIM, FBRT, PLYM, ALX, ARR, NXRT, UMH, MFA, and SVC
Should you be buying Paramount Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Group include Centerspace (CSR), Chimera Investment (CIM), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Alexander's (ALX), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), UMH Properties (UMH), MFA Financial (MFA), and Service Properties Trust (SVC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Centerspace (NYSE:CSR) and Paramount Group (NYSE:PGRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Centerspace pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Paramount Group pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Centerspace pays out -375.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Group pays out -12.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Centerspace has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Centerspace is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Centerspace has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Group has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centerspace currently has a consensus price target of $67.57, suggesting a potential upside of 0.45%. Paramount Group has a consensus price target of $4.60, suggesting a potential upside of 2.22%. Given Centerspace's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Paramount Group is more favorable than Centerspace.
Centerspace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Group. Centerspace is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paramount Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.0% of Centerspace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Paramount Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Centerspace shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Paramount Group shares are held by company 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.
Paramount Group received 190 more outperform votes than Centerspace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.02% of users gave Paramount Group an outperform vote while only 40.58% of users gave Centerspace an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Centerspace had 4 more articles in the media than Paramount Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Centerspace and 0 mentions for Paramount Group. Paramount Group's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Centerspace's score of 0.98 indicating that Centerspace is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Centerspace has a net margin of -2.38% compared to Centerspace's net margin of -33.85%. Paramount Group's return on equity of -0.73% beat Centerspace's return on equity.
Summary
Centerspace beats Paramount Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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