REFI vs. BRDG, JBGS, PGRE, UNIT, SAFE, AAMI, CSR, DEA, SBR, and NXRT
Should you be buying Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance include Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Paramount Group (PGRE), Uniti Group (UNIT), Safehold (SAFE), Acadian Asset Management (AAMI), Centerspace (CSR), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), and NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance vs.
Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (NASDAQ:REFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Bridge Investment Group had 1 more articles in the media than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bridge Investment Group and 1 mentions for Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Bridge Investment Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 64.57% compared to Bridge Investment Group's net margin of 1.92%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 13.17% beat Bridge Investment Group's return on equity.
Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridge Investment Group presently has a consensus price target of $10.40, suggesting a potential upside of 12.25%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.61%. Given Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Bridge Investment Group.
Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Bridge Investment Group pays out -84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bridge Investment Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Bridge Investment Group received 23 more outperform votes than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance beats Bridge Investment Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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