AHT vs. SELF, LOAN, CLPR, SOHO, CMCT, GIPR, NYC, AJX, CHMI, and ACR
Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include Global Self Storage (SELF), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Great Ajax (AJX), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), and ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Global Self Storage (NASDAQ:SELF) and Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Global Self Storage pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.0%. Global Self Storage pays out 111.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays out -4.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ashford Hospitality Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 346 more outperform votes than Global Self Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.28% of users gave Global Self Storage an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
28.9% of Global Self Storage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Global Self Storage shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Self Storage had 2 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Global Self Storage and 0 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Global Self Storage's score of 0.00 indicating that Global Self Storage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Global Self Storage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Self Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 108.33%. Given Global Self Storage's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Global Self Storage.
Global Self Storage has a net margin of 24.11% compared to Global Self Storage's net margin of -13.13%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 6.09% beat Global Self Storage's return on equity.
Global Self Storage has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.23, indicating that its share price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Global Self Storage beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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