CLPR vs. NREF, ONL, PINE, MITT, CIO, FSP, BHR, GPMT, MDV, and EARN
Should you be buying Clipper Realty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clipper Realty include NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), City Office REIT (CIO), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Modiv Industrial (MDV), and Ellington Credit (EARN). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) and Clipper Realty (NYSE:CLPR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Clipper Realty received 233 more outperform votes than NexPoint Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave Clipper Realty an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clipper Realty has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.6% of Clipper Realty shares are held by institutional investors. 54.0% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.3% of Clipper Realty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. Clipper Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out -363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clipper Realty pays out -108.6% 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. NexPoint Real Estate Finance has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Clipper Realty has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clipper Realty. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clipper Realty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus price target of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.00%. Clipper Realty has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 143.59%. Given NexPoint Real Estate Finance's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clipper Realty is more favorable than NexPoint Real Estate Finance.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 23.44% compared to NexPoint Real Estate Finance's net margin of -3.01%. Clipper Realty's return on equity of 3.78% beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
In the previous week, NexPoint Real Estate Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Clipper Realty. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance and 3 mentions for Clipper Realty. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Clipper Realty's score of 0.15 indicating that Clipper Realty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NexPoint Real Estate Finance beats Clipper Realty on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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