KW vs. CMTG, EFC, AHH, GTY, HPP, FOR, FRPH, SRG, TRC, and FPH
Should you be buying Kennedy-Wilson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kennedy-Wilson include Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), Ellington Financial (EFC), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Getty Realty (GTY), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), Forestar Group (FOR), FRP (FRPH), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Tejon Ranch (TRC), and Five Point (FPH). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Kennedy-Wilson (NYSE:KW) and Claros Mortgage Trust (NYSE:CMTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Kennedy-Wilson received 389 more outperform votes than Claros Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.77% of users gave Kennedy-Wilson an outperform vote while only 17.86% of users gave Claros Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
87.7% of Kennedy-Wilson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.7% of Kennedy-Wilson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Claros Mortgage Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kennedy-Wilson. Kennedy-Wilson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Claros Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Claros Mortgage Trust has a net margin of 1.97% compared to Kennedy-Wilson's net margin of -55.65%. Claros Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 2.01% beat Kennedy-Wilson's return on equity.
Kennedy-Wilson has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Claros Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kennedy-Wilson currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.98%. Claros Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.94%. Given Kennedy-Wilson's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kennedy-Wilson is more favorable than Claros Mortgage Trust.
In the previous week, Claros Mortgage Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Kennedy-Wilson. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Claros Mortgage Trust and 1 mentions for Kennedy-Wilson. Claros Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Kennedy-Wilson's score of 0.00 indicating that Claros Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kennedy-Wilson pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Claros Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Kennedy-Wilson pays out -39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Claros Mortgage Trust pays out 5,002.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Claros Mortgage Trust beats Kennedy-Wilson on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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