REFI vs. AIV, ALX, MFA, UMH, FBRT, CSR, PGRE, CIM, ARR, and PLYM
Should you be buying Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance include Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), Alexander's (ALX), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Centerspace (CSR), Paramount Group (PGRE), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apartment Investment and Management (NYSE:AIV) and Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (NASDAQ:REFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
83.3% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Apartment Investment and Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $17.33, indicating a potential upside of 10.40%. Given Apartment Investment and Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Apartment Investment and Management.
Apartment Investment and Management received 375 more outperform votes than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Apartment Investment and Management an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Apartment Investment and Management had 6 more articles in the media than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Apartment Investment and Management and 2 mentions for Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance. Apartment Investment and Management's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's score of 0.49 indicating that Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 62.74% compared to Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's net margin of -86.84%. Apartment Investment and Management's return on equity of 13.84% beat Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Apartment Investment and Management has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Apartment Investment and Management. Apartment Investment and Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance beats Apartment Investment and Management on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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