MDRR vs. SOHO, GIPR, NYC, SQFT, IMH, WHLR, PW, TCI, PLD, and AMT
Should you be buying Medalist Diversified REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medalist Diversified REIT include Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), Impac Mortgage (IMH), Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (WHLR), Power REIT (PW), Transcontinental Realty Investors (TCI), Prologis (PLD), and American Tower (AMT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Medalist Diversified REIT (NASDAQ:MDRR) and Sotherly Hotels (NASDAQ:SOHO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Sotherly Hotels has a consensus target price of $2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 65.44%. Given Sotherly Hotels' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sotherly Hotels is more favorable than Medalist Diversified REIT.
Medalist Diversified REIT has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sotherly Hotels has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
17.4% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.5% of Sotherly Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Sotherly Hotels shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sotherly Hotels had 1 more articles in the media than Medalist Diversified REIT. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sotherly Hotels and 4 mentions for Medalist Diversified REIT. Medalist Diversified REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Sotherly Hotels' score of 0.31 indicating that Medalist Diversified REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sotherly Hotels has higher revenue and earnings than Medalist Diversified REIT. Sotherly Hotels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Medalist Diversified REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sotherly Hotels has a net margin of 2.18% compared to Medalist Diversified REIT's net margin of -19.20%. Sotherly Hotels' return on equity of 7.86% beat Medalist Diversified REIT's return on equity.
Sotherly Hotels received 134 more outperform votes than Medalist Diversified REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.30% of users gave Medalist Diversified REIT an outperform vote while only 45.03% of users gave Sotherly Hotels an outperform vote.
Medalist Diversified REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Sotherly Hotels pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 38.2%. Medalist Diversified REIT pays out -8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sotherly Hotels pays out -247.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Sotherly Hotels is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Sotherly Hotels beats Medalist Diversified REIT on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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