KREF vs. INN, NYMT, DX, WSR, TRTX, CHCT, DHC, GMRE, BDN, and FPI
Should you be buying KKR Real Estate Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust include Summit Hotel Properties (INN), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Dynex Capital (DX), Whitestone REIT (WSR), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), and Farmland Partners (FPI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (NYSE:KREF) and Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Summit Hotel Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays out -217.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Summit Hotel Properties pays out -100.0% 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. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Hotel Properties has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust presently has a consensus price target of $11.96, indicating a potential upside of 23.60%. Given KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is more favorable than Summit Hotel Properties.
70.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Summit Hotel Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summit Hotel Properties has a net margin of -1.04% compared to KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's net margin of -1.39%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's return on equity of 10.38% beat Summit Hotel Properties' return on equity.
Summit Hotel Properties received 156 more outperform votes than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.94% of users gave Summit Hotel Properties an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave KKR Real Estate Finance Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Summit Hotel Properties had 11 more articles in the media than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Summit Hotel Properties and 0 mentions for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. Summit Hotel Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Summit Hotel Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Hotel Properties has higher revenue and earnings than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. Summit Hotel Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Summit Hotel Properties beats KKR Real Estate Finance Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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