FBRT vs. PGRE, CSR, CIM, MFA, SVC, UMH, ALX, PLYM, UNIT, and ARR
Should you be buying Franklin BSP Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin BSP Realty Trust include Paramount Group (PGRE), Centerspace (CSR), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), Service Properties Trust (SVC), UMH Properties (UMH), Alexander's (ALX), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Uniti Group (UNIT), and ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT) and Paramount Group (NYSE:PGRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Franklin BSP Realty Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Paramount Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Franklin BSP Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Paramount Group. Paramount Group's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Franklin BSP Realty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Paramount Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
59.9% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Paramount Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Paramount Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Group has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Paramount Group pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays out 107.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Paramount Group pays out -12.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.00%. Paramount Group has a consensus price target of $4.60, indicating a potential downside of 5.15%. Given Franklin BSP Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Franklin BSP Realty Trust is more favorable than Paramount Group.
Paramount Group received 206 more outperform votes than Franklin BSP Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Franklin BSP Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 48.02% of users gave Paramount Group an outperform vote.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a net margin of 53.82% compared to Paramount Group's net margin of -33.85%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust's return on equity of 14.32% beat Paramount Group's return on equity.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Group. Paramount Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin BSP Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Franklin BSP Realty Trust beats Paramount Group on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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