CSR vs. CIM, PGRE, SVC, FBRT, PLYM, MFA, UMH, ARR, NXRT, and BFS
Should you be buying Centerspace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centerspace include Chimera Investment (CIM), Paramount Group (PGRE), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), and Saul Centers (BFS). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Centerspace (NYSE:CSR) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 16.32% compared to Centerspace's net margin of -2.38%. Chimera Investment's return on equity of 7.51% beat Centerspace's return on equity.
Centerspace has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Centerspace presently has a consensus target price of $66.33, suggesting a potential downside of 3.50%. Chimera Investment has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29.56%. Given Chimera Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Centerspace.
Chimera Investment received 379 more outperform votes than Centerspace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.00% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote while only 39.71% of users gave Centerspace an outperform vote.
Centerspace pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Centerspace pays out -375.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chimera Investment pays out 191.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
79.0% of Centerspace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Centerspace shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Chimera Investment 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.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Centerspace. Centerspace is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Centerspace had 13 more articles in the media than Chimera Investment. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Centerspace and 2 mentions for Chimera Investment. Centerspace's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Chimera Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Centerspace is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Centerspace on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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