AJX vs. MDV, LFT, EARN, ACR, CHMI, BHR, ONL, CIO, CMCT, and MITT
Should you be buying Great Ajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Ajax include Modiv Industrial (MDV), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Orion Office REIT (ONL), City Office REIT (CIO), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) and Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
58.6% of Great Ajax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Modiv Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Great Ajax shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Modiv Industrial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Great Ajax currently has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 113.07%. Modiv Industrial has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.66%. Given Great Ajax's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Great Ajax is more favorable than Modiv Industrial.
Great Ajax received 240 more outperform votes than Modiv Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Modiv Industrial an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.
Great Ajax has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Modiv Industrial has a beta of -0.22, indicating that its stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Modiv Industrial has a net margin of 1.80% compared to Great Ajax's net margin of 0.00%. Modiv Industrial's return on equity of 0.37% beat Great Ajax's return on equity.
Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Modiv Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Great Ajax pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Modiv Industrial pays out -244.7% 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. Modiv Industrial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Modiv Industrial had 1 more articles in the media than Great Ajax. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Modiv Industrial and 4 mentions for Great Ajax. Modiv Industrial's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Great Ajax's score of -0.82 indicating that Modiv Industrial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Modiv Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Great Ajax. Modiv Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Ajax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Modiv Industrial beats Great Ajax on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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