SELF vs. AHT, LOAN, CLPR, CMCT, SOHO, GIPR, NYC, ACR, CHMI, and LFT
Should you be buying Global Self Storage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Self Storage include Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), and Lument Finance Trust (LFT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Global Self Storage (NASDAQ:SELF) and Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Ashford Hospitality Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Global Self Storage. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust and 1 mentions for Global Self Storage. Ashford Hospitality Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Global Self Storage's score of 0.29 indicating that Ashford Hospitality Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ashford Hospitality Trust received 346 more outperform votes than Global Self Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.28% of users gave Global Self Storage an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.
Ashford Hospitality Trust has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 92.31%. Given Ashford Hospitality Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust is more favorable than Global Self Storage.
28.9% of Global Self Storage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Global Self Storage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Self Storage has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Self Storage has a net margin of 18.15% compared to Ashford Hospitality Trust's net margin of -3.51%. Global Self Storage's return on equity of 4.60% beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity.
Global Self Storage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Self Storage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Global Self Storage beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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