BXMT vs. EPR, SKT, GRP.U, HASI, SITC, MAC, HHH, BNL, NHI, and SLG
Should you be buying Blackstone Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackstone Mortgage Trust include EPR Properties (EPR), Tanger (SKT), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), SITE Centers (SITC), Macerich (MAC), Howard Hughes (HHH), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), National Health Investors (NHI), and SL Green Realty (SLG). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
EPR Properties (NYSE:EPR) and Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
EPR Properties presently has a consensus price target of $48.05, suggesting a potential upside of 15.64%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a consensus price target of $19.93, suggesting a potential upside of 11.58%. Given Blackstone Mortgage Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe EPR Properties is more favorable than Blackstone Mortgage Trust.
EPR Properties has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has higher revenue and earnings than EPR Properties. EPR Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust received 61 more outperform votes than EPR Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Blackstone Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 58.63% of users gave EPR Properties an outperform vote.
74.7% of EPR Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of EPR Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, EPR Properties had 2 more articles in the media than Blackstone Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for EPR Properties and 2 mentions for Blackstone Mortgage Trust. Blackstone Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat EPR Properties' score of 0.65 indicating that EPR Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
EPR Properties pays an annual dividend of $3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. EPR Properties pays out 168.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays out 8,266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. EPR Properties has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
EPR Properties has a net margin of 25.39% compared to EPR Properties' net margin of 0.24%. EPR Properties' return on equity of 10.72% beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Summary
EPR Properties beats Blackstone Mortgage Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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