AJX vs. CHMI, ACR, CMCT, LFT, CLPR, MDV, LOAN, AHT, SELF, and MITT
Should you be buying Great Ajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Ajax include Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Modiv Industrial (MDV), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Global Self Storage (SELF), and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (NYSE:CHMI) and Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
18.5% of Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Great Ajax shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Great Ajax shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Ajax has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.4%. Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment pays out -35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Ajax pays out -20.3% 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. Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment had 6 more articles in the media than Great Ajax. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment and 2 mentions for Great Ajax. Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Great Ajax's score of 0.55 indicating that Great Ajax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment received 12 more outperform votes than Great Ajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.73% of users gave Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.14%. Great Ajax has a consensus target price of $8.33, indicating a potential upside of 145.46%. Given Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Great Ajax is more favorable than Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment.
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Great Ajax. Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Ajax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Ajax has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Great Ajax's net margin of -69.00%. Great Ajax's return on equity of 19.65% beat Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment beats Great Ajax on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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