LOAN vs. AHT, SELF, CLPR, CMCT, SOHO, NYC, CHMI, AJX, ACR, and LFT
Should you be buying Manhattan Bridge Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Manhattan Bridge Capital include Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Global Self Storage (SELF), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), Great Ajax (AJX), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT).
Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) and Manhattan Bridge Capital (NASDAQ:LOAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.24, indicating that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manhattan Bridge Capital has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manhattan Bridge Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has a net margin of 55.91% compared to Manhattan Bridge Capital's net margin of -13.13%. Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity of 12.77% beat Manhattan Bridge Capital's return on equity.
41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.4% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are held 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.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 290 more outperform votes than Manhattan Bridge Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.62% of users gave Manhattan Bridge Capital an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
Ashford Hospitality Trust currently has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 87.27%. Given Manhattan Bridge Capital's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Manhattan Bridge Capital.
In the previous week, Ashford Hospitality Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Manhattan Bridge Capital. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust and 5 mentions for Manhattan Bridge Capital. Manhattan Bridge Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's score of 0.09 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Manhattan Bridge Capital beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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