CLPR vs. LOAN, AHT, SELF, CMCT, CHMI, AJX, SOHO, ACR, GIPR, and LFT
Should you be buying Clipper Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clipper Realty include Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Global Self Storage (SELF), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), Great Ajax (AJX), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT).
Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR) and Manhattan Bridge Capital (NASDAQ:LOAN) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Clipper Realty has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manhattan Bridge Capital has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Clipper Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Manhattan Bridge Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Clipper Realty pays out -84.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Manhattan Bridge Capital pays out 95.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clipper Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Clipper Realty currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 135.15%. Given Clipper Realty's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Clipper Realty is more favorable than Manhattan Bridge Capital.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has a net margin of 55.91% compared to Clipper Realty's net margin of -4.27%. Manhattan Bridge Capital's return on equity of 12.77% beat Clipper Realty's return on equity.
37.6% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.3% of Clipper Realty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.4% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Clipper Realty received 71 more outperform votes than Manhattan Bridge Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.62% of users gave Manhattan Bridge Capital an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave Clipper Realty an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Clipper Realty had 8 more articles in the media than Manhattan Bridge Capital. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Clipper Realty and 1 mentions for Manhattan Bridge Capital. Manhattan Bridge Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Clipper Realty's score of -0.05 indicating that Manhattan Bridge Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Manhattan Bridge Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clipper Realty. Clipper Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manhattan Bridge Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clipper Realty beats Manhattan Bridge Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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