BRSP vs. SITC, SKT, EPR, NSA, BXMT, MPW, BNL, NHI, CDP, and HIW
Should you be buying BrightSpire Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BrightSpire Capital include SITE Centers (SITC), Tanger (SKT), EPR Properties (EPR), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), National Health Investors (NHI), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), and Highwoods Properties (HIW). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) and BrightSpire Capital (NYSE:BRSP) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
SITE Centers has a net margin of 43.36% compared to SITE Centers' net margin of -33.20%. BrightSpire Capital's return on equity of 11.83% beat SITE Centers' return on equity.
SITE Centers received 9 more outperform votes than BrightSpire Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 44.44% of users gave BrightSpire Capital an outperform vote while only 29.58% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.
SITE Centers has higher revenue and earnings than BrightSpire Capital. BrightSpire Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SITE Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SITE Centers currently has a consensus price target of $14.38, suggesting a potential downside of 1.27%. BrightSpire Capital has a consensus price target of $7.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.00%. Given SITE Centers' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BrightSpire Capital is more favorable than SITE Centers.
In the previous week, SITE Centers had 11 more articles in the media than BrightSpire Capital. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for SITE Centers and 1 mentions for BrightSpire Capital. SITE Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BrightSpire Capital's score of 0.49 indicating that BrightSpire Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SITE Centers has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightSpire Capital has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. BrightSpire Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. SITE Centers pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BrightSpire Capital pays out -145.5% 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. BrightSpire Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of BrightSpire Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of BrightSpire Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
SITE Centers beats BrightSpire Capital on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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