CTO vs. IVR, ACRE, ORC, NLOP, BRT, LAND, PSTL, OLP, UHT, and CLDT
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), BRT Apartments (BRT), Gladstone Land (LAND), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), and Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) and Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
CTO Realty Growth currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.62%. Invesco Mortgage Capital has a consensus price target of $9.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.41%. Given CTO Realty Growth's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CTO Realty Growth is more favorable than Invesco Mortgage Capital.
67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CTO Realty Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTO Realty Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.8%. CTO Realty Growth pays out 5,066.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays out -200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Invesco Mortgage Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Invesco Mortgage Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat CTO Realty Growth's score of -0.40 indicating that Invesco Mortgage Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invesco Mortgage Capital has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 5.07% compared to Invesco Mortgage Capital's net margin of -5.71%. Invesco Mortgage Capital's return on equity of 64.48% beat CTO Realty Growth's return on equity.
Invesco Mortgage Capital received 407 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.96% of users gave Invesco Mortgage Capital an outperform vote while only 27.50% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
Summary
CTO Realty Growth beats Invesco Mortgage Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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