CTO vs. ROIC, PEB, LTC, CXW, SAFE, ARI, RC, LADR, AAT, and RLJ
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), LTC Properties (LTC), CoreCivic (CXW), Safehold (SAFE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Ladder Capital (LADR), American Assets Trust (AAT), and RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 7 more articles in the media than CTO Realty Growth. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 14 mentions for CTO Realty Growth. CTO Realty Growth's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Retail Opportunity Investments' score of 0.06 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Retail Opportunity Investments has higher revenue and earnings than CTO Realty Growth. CTO Realty Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CTO Realty Growth pays out 276.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Retail Opportunity Investments currently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 12.30%. CTO Realty Growth has a consensus target price of $19.33, indicating a potential downside of 1.41%. Given CTO Realty Growth's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than CTO Realty Growth.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 15.43% compared to CTO Realty Growth's net margin of 10.40%. Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity of 3.70% beat CTO Realty Growth's return on equity.
Retail Opportunity Investments received 314 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.16% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 29.27% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
Summary
Retail Opportunity Investments beats CTO Realty Growth on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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