HCFT vs. ACRE, PINE, FVR, ILPT, MITT, EARN, CIO, FSP, EQC, and BHR
Should you be buying Hunt Companies Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hunt Companies Finance Trust include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), FrontView REIT (FVR), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Ellington Credit (EARN), City Office REIT (CIO), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), and Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust vs.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust (NYSE:HCFT) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.8%. Hunt Companies Finance Trust pays out 106.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -240.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.65%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Hunt Companies Finance Trust.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 236 more outperform votes than Hunt Companies Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.23% of users gave Hunt Companies Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 58.01% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ares Commercial Real Estate had 4 more articles in the media than Hunt Companies Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate and 0 mentions for Hunt Companies Finance Trust. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Hunt Companies Finance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Ares Commercial Real Estate is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust has a net margin of 21.24% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -50.24%. Hunt Companies Finance Trust's return on equity of 7.51% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.
36.2% of Hunt Companies Finance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Hunt Companies Finance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by company 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.
Hunt Companies Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hunt Companies Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hunt Companies Finance Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HCFT) was last updated on 6/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
