RMR vs. IRS, CHCT, PFC, CFFN, CNOB, AC, AMAL, PFLT, PRA, and DX
Should you be buying The RMR Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The RMR Group include IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Premier Financial (PFC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Associated Capital Group (AC), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), ProAssurance (PRA), and Dynex Capital (DX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
The RMR Group (NASDAQ:RMR) and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:IRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a net margin of 99.91% compared to The RMR Group's net margin of 5.93%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's return on equity of 25.70% beat The RMR Group's return on equity.
The RMR Group pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.7%. The RMR Group pays out 52.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays out 31.8% 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. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, The RMR Group had 10 more articles in the media than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The RMR Group and 0 mentions for IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. The RMR Group's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's score of 0.00 indicating that The RMR Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The RMR Group. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The RMR Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The RMR Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
42.3% of The RMR Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are held by institutional investors. 54.9% of The RMR Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.1% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The RMR Group currently has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.99%. Given The RMR Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe The RMR Group is more favorable than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima.
The RMR Group received 177 more outperform votes than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.31% of users gave The RMR Group an outperform vote while only 51.20% of users gave IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote.
Summary
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima beats The RMR Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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