CRESY vs. CMTG, EFC, AHH, HOUS, FPH, SRG, STRS, AFCG, RMAX, and MRCC
Should you be buying Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria include Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), Ellington Financial (EFC), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS), Five Point (FPH), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Stratus Properties (STRS), AFC Gamma (AFCG), RE/MAX (RMAX), and Monroe Capital (MRCC). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (NASDAQ:CRESY) and Claros Mortgage Trust (NYSE:CMTG) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria has higher revenue and earnings than Claros Mortgage Trust. Claros Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Claros Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $9.38, suggesting a potential downside of 2.45%. Given Claros Mortgage Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Claros Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Claros Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria pays out 18.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Claros Mortgage Trust pays out -161.3% 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. Claros Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Claros Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria received 170 more outperform votes than Claros Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.19% of users gave Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria an outperform vote while only 15.63% of users gave Claros Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
12.9% of Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.2% of Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Claros Mortgage Trust had 5 more articles in the media than Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Claros Mortgage Trust and 1 mentions for Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria. Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Claros Mortgage Trust's score of 1.04 indicating that Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria has a net margin of 13.46% compared to Claros Mortgage Trust's net margin of -28.16%. Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria's return on equity of 4.79% beat Claros Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria beats Claros Mortgage Trust on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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