AJX vs. OLP, LAND, IVR, PKST, ORC, CLDT, CTO, ACRE, NLOP, and BRT
Should you be buying Great Ajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Ajax include One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), and BRT Apartments (BRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
One Liberty Properties (NYSE:OLP) and Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
36.2% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Great Ajax shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.4% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Great Ajax shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
One Liberty Properties presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.52%. Great Ajax has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 121.24%. Given One Liberty Properties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Great Ajax is more favorable than One Liberty Properties.
Great Ajax received 44 more outperform votes than One Liberty Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.82% of users gave One Liberty Properties an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.
One Liberty Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Great Ajax. Great Ajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than One Liberty Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
One Liberty Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. One Liberty Properties pays out 132.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Great Ajax pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
One Liberty Properties has a net margin of 32.51% compared to One Liberty Properties' net margin of 0.00%. Great Ajax's return on equity of 9.56% beat One Liberty Properties' return on equity.
In the previous week, Great Ajax had 1 more articles in the media than One Liberty Properties. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Great Ajax and 1 mentions for One Liberty Properties. Great Ajax's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat One Liberty Properties' score of 1.00 indicating that One Liberty Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
One Liberty Properties has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Ajax has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
One Liberty Properties beats Great Ajax on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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