NREF vs. CSR, UNIT, DEA, SBR, NXRT, PAX, TINV, AC, ORC, and NOAH
Should you be buying NexPoint Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Real Estate Finance include Centerspace (CSR), Uniti Group (UNIT), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), Patria Investments (PAX), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), Associated Capital Group (AC), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Noah (NOAH). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance vs. Its Competitors
Centerspace (NYSE:CSR) and NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Centerspace pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. Centerspace pays out -275.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out 88.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Centerspace has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Centerspace presently has a consensus price target of $71.56, indicating a potential upside of 10.56%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.29%. Given Centerspace's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Centerspace is more favorable than NexPoint Real Estate Finance.
Centerspace received 17 more outperform votes than NexPoint Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 44.71% of users gave Centerspace an outperform vote.
Centerspace has higher revenue and earnings than NexPoint Real Estate Finance. Centerspace is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NexPoint Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Centerspace had 2 more articles in the media than NexPoint Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Centerspace and 1 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance. Centerspace's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Centerspace is being referred to more favorably in the media.
79.0% of Centerspace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Centerspace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 55.7% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Centerspace's net margin of -4.34%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 11.39% beat Centerspace's return on equity.
Centerspace has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Centerspace beats NexPoint Real Estate Finance on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:NREF) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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