LFT vs. CMCT, EARN, AHT, CLPR, MITT, ACR, MDV, AAIC, CHMI, and LOAN
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Clipper Realty (CLPR), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Modiv (MDV), Arlington Asset Investment (AAIC), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), and Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Lument Finance Trust vs.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (NASDAQ:CMCT) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. pays out -37.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lument Finance Trust 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. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Creative Media & Community Trust Co. had 1 more articles in the media than Lument Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Creative Media & Community Trust Co. and 6 mentions for Lument Finance Trust. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Lument Finance Trust's score of 0.60 indicating that Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lument Finance Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Creative Media & Community Trust Co.. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lument Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. received 56 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.47% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 50.45% of users gave Creative Media & Community Trust Co. an outperform vote.
25.4% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.2% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 104.08%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.90, indicating a potential upside of 42.86%. Given Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is more favorable than Lument Finance Trust.
Lument Finance Trust has a net margin of 18.60% compared to Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s net margin of 5.58%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s return on equity of 10.38% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. beats Lument Finance Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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Lument Finance Trust Competitors List
