FBRT vs. SVC, PGRE, UMH, CIM, ALX, MFA, CSR, PLYM, ARR, and AIV
Should you be buying Franklin BSP Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin BSP Realty Trust include Service Properties Trust (SVC), Paramount Group (PGRE), UMH Properties (UMH), Chimera Investment (CIM), Alexander's (ALX), MFA Financial (MFA), Centerspace (CSR), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and Apartment Investment and Management (AIV). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) and Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Service Properties Trust presently has a consensus price target of $7.92, indicating a potential upside of 27.28%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 17.34%. Given Franklin BSP Realty Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Service Properties Trust is more favorable than Franklin BSP Realty Trust.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a net margin of 55.02% compared to Franklin BSP Realty Trust's net margin of -1.75%. Service Properties Trust's return on equity of 14.57% beat Franklin BSP Realty Trust's return on equity.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Service Properties Trust. Service Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin BSP Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Service Properties Trust pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays out 100.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Service Properties Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Service Properties Trust had 7 more articles in the media than Franklin BSP Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Service Properties Trust and 2 mentions for Franklin BSP Realty Trust. Service Properties Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Franklin BSP Realty Trust's score of 0.68 indicating that Franklin BSP Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Service Properties Trust has a beta of 2.18, indicating that its stock price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.6% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Service Properties Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Service Properties Trust received 280 more outperform votes than Franklin BSP Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Franklin BSP Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 50.96% of users gave Service Properties Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Franklin BSP Realty Trust beats Service Properties Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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