CMFN vs. FSP, EHTH, RMAX, CBFV, RMBI, CZWI, DMF, MDV, ECBK, and BCBP
Should you be buying CM Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CM Finance include Franklin Street Properties (FSP), eHealth (EHTH), RE/MAX (RMAX), CB Financial Services (CBFV), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), Modiv Industrial (MDV), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), and BCB Bancorp (BCBP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CM Finance vs.
CM Finance (NASDAQ:CMFN) and Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
CM Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 33.1%. Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. CM Finance pays out 71.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Street Properties pays out -6.3% 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.
44.5% of CM Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of CM Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CM Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Franklin Street Properties. Franklin Street Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CM Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CM Finance has a net margin of -13.35% compared to Franklin Street Properties' net margin of -43.90%. CM Finance's return on equity of 11.75% beat Franklin Street Properties' return on equity.
CM Finance received 159 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave CM Finance an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Franklin Street Properties had 3 more articles in the media than CM Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Franklin Street Properties and 0 mentions for CM Finance. Franklin Street Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat CM Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Franklin Street Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CM Finance has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CM Finance beats Franklin Street Properties on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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