NREF vs. FSP, GPMT, PINE, ILPT, ONL, REFI, CIO, BRT, MDV, and PSTL
Should you be buying NexPoint Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Real Estate Finance include Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), City Office REIT (CIO), BRT Apartments (BRT), Modiv Industrial (MDV), and Postal Realty Trust (PSTL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) and NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Franklin Street Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Franklin Street Properties presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.86%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.53%. Given Franklin Street Properties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NexPoint Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Franklin Street Properties.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Franklin Street Properties. Franklin Street Properties 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.
Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Franklin Street Properties pays out -8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out 307.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance received 21 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.64% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 23.44% compared to NexPoint Real Estate Finance's net margin of -33.02%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of 9.51% beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
In the previous week, Franklin Street Properties had 2 more articles in the media than NexPoint Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Franklin Street Properties and 0 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Franklin Street Properties'average media sentiment score.
Summary
NexPoint Real Estate Finance beats Franklin Street Properties on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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