WHLR vs. MDRR, NYC, GIPR, SOHO, TCJH, PWM, GRNQ, SGD, CARV, and ROMA
Should you be buying Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust include Medalist Diversified REIT (MDRR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Top KingWin (TCJH), Prestige Wealth (PWM), Greenpro Capital (GRNQ), Safe and Green Development (SGD), Carver Bancorp (CARV), and Roma Green Finance (ROMA). 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 finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Medalist Diversified REIT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Medalist Diversified REIT. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Medalist Diversified REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of -4.58% compared to Medalist Diversified REIT's net margin of -44.51%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat Medalist Diversified REIT'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.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,251.9%. 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 -4.5% 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.
35.3% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.4% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 51.4% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medalist Diversified REIT has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% 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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