MDRR vs. WHLR, NYC, GIPR, SOHO, SELF, SI, FUFU, CWD, JNVR, and MEGL
Should you be buying Medalist Diversified REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medalist Diversified REIT include Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (WHLR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Global Self Storage (SELF), Silvergate Capital (SI), BitFuFu (FUFU), CaliberCos (CWD), Janover (JNVR), and Magic Empire Global (MEGL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (NASDAQ:WHLR) and Medalist Diversified REIT (NASDAQ:MDRR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,184.8%. Medalist Diversified REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Medalist Diversified REIT pays out -5.0% 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.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of -4.58% compared to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -44.51%. Medalist Diversified REIT's return on equity of 0.00% beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
Medalist Diversified REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Medalist Diversified REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Medalist Diversified REIT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Medalist Diversified REIT. Medalist Diversified REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's score of -0.60 indicating that Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
35.3% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.4% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.4% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are owned 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.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust received 159 more outperform votes than Medalist Diversified REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.30% of users gave Medalist Diversified REIT an outperform vote while only 63.95% of users gave Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medalist Diversified REIT has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust beats Medalist Diversified REIT on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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