FSP vs. GPMT, PINE, NREF, CIO, ONL, ILPT, MITT, BHR, REFI, and MDV
Should you be buying Franklin Street Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Street Properties include Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), City Office REIT (CIO), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), and Modiv Industrial (MDV). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE:GPMT) and Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays out -40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Street Properties pays out -8.5% 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. Granite Point Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
51.6% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franklin Street Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. Franklin Street Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Point Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust received 205 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.07% of users gave Granite Point Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a net margin of -23.49% compared to Granite Point Mortgage Trust's net margin of -33.02%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of 4.10% beat Granite Point Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus target price of $6.56, indicating a potential upside of 49.49%. Franklin Street Properties has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Franklin Street Properties' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Granite Point Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Franklin Street Properties.
In the previous week, Franklin Street Properties had 3 more articles in the media than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Franklin Street Properties and 3 mentions for Granite Point Mortgage Trust. Granite Point Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Franklin Street Properties' score of 0.03 indicating that Franklin Street Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Granite Point Mortgage Trust beats Franklin Street Properties on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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