LFT vs. UHT, FPI, OLP, LAND, IVR, ORC, PKST, CLDT, CTO, and ACRE
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Farmland Partners (FPI), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), and Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust pays out 247.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lument Finance Trust pays out 87.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Universal Health Realty Income Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Lument Finance Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Lument Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lument Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Health Realty Income Trust. Lument Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Health Realty Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust has a net margin of 16.66% compared to Universal Health Realty Income Trust's net margin of 16.43%. Universal Health Realty Income Trust's return on equity of 12.59% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
64.7% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Universal Health Realty Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Universal Health Realty Income Trust received 65 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.25% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Universal Health Realty Income Trust an outperform vote.
Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.58, indicating a potential upside of 3.33%. Given Universal Health Realty Income Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lument Finance Trust is more favorable than Universal Health Realty Income Trust.
In the previous week, Universal Health Realty Income Trust and Universal Health Realty Income Trust both had 2 articles in the media. Lument Finance Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Universal Health Realty Income Trust's score of 0.33 indicating that Universal Health Realty Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Lument Finance Trust beats Universal Health Realty Income Trust on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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