STHO vs. GOOD, MPA, ISTR, CWBC, MYFW, BCBP, MPV, ESSA, NNY, and MITT
Should you be buying Star stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Star include Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), Investar (ISTR), Community West Bancshares (CWBC), First Western Financial (MYFW), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Star (NASDAQ:STHO) and Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Gladstone Commercial has higher revenue and earnings than Star. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Star had 58 more articles in the media than Gladstone Commercial. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Star and 8 mentions for Gladstone Commercial. Gladstone Commercial's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Star's score of -0.13 indicating that Gladstone Commercial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Commercial has a consensus price target of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 12.46%. Given Gladstone Commercial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gladstone Commercial is more favorable than Star.
Star has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Commercial has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Commercial received 267 more outperform votes than Star when rated by MarketBeat users.
Gladstone Commercial has a net margin of 2.82% compared to Star's net margin of -159.60%. Gladstone Commercial's return on equity of 2.36% beat Star's return on equity.
89.3% of Star shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Star shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats Star on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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