CTO vs. IVR, ACRE, ORC, CLDT, NLOP, LAND, BRT, PSTL, OLP, and UHT
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), Gladstone Land (LAND), BRT Apartments (BRT), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), One Liberty Properties (OLP), and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) and Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 15.43% compared to Invesco Mortgage Capital's net margin of -5.71%. Invesco Mortgage Capital's return on equity of 64.48% beat CTO Realty Growth's return on equity.
CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invesco Mortgage Capital has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CTO Realty Growth had 8 more articles in the media than Invesco Mortgage Capital. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CTO Realty Growth and 6 mentions for Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat CTO Realty Growth's score of 0.33 indicating that Invesco Mortgage Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CTO Realty Growth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTO Realty Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Invesco Mortgage Capital received 407 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.88% of users gave Invesco Mortgage Capital an outperform vote while only 27.50% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
CTO Realty Growth presently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.51%. Invesco Mortgage Capital has a consensus target price of $9.25, indicating a potential upside of 1.54%. Given CTO Realty Growth's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe CTO Realty Growth is more favorable than Invesco Mortgage Capital.
67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.6%. CTO Realty Growth pays out 276.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays out -200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Invesco Mortgage Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
CTO Realty Growth beats Invesco Mortgage Capital on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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