XAN vs. ORC, LAND, CLDT, UHT, OLP, CTO, PKST, FPI, ACRE, and GMRE
Should you be buying Exantas Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exantas Capital include Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Gladstone Land (LAND), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Farmland Partners (FPI), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Orchid Island Capital (NYSE:ORC) and Exantas Capital (NYSE:XAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
32.7% of Orchid Island Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Exantas Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Orchid Island Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Exantas Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Orchid Island Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.2%. Exantas Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 24.3%. Orchid Island Capital pays out -175.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Exantas Capital pays out 330.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Orchid Island Capital has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exantas Capital has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Orchid Island Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Exantas Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Orchid Island Capital and 0 mentions for Exantas Capital. Exantas Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Orchid Island Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Orchid Island Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Exantas Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orchid Island Capital. Orchid Island Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Exantas Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orchid Island Capital has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Orchid Island Capital's net margin of -347.93%. Orchid Island Capital's return on equity of 8.10% beat Exantas Capital's return on equity.
Orchid Island Capital received 234 more outperform votes than Exantas Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave Orchid Island Capital an outperform vote while only 30.89% of users gave Exantas Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Exantas Capital beats Orchid Island Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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