WHLR vs. MDRR, IHT, SQFT, PW, IMH, TCI, PLD, AMT, EQIX, and WELL
Should you be buying Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust include Medalist Diversified REIT (MDRR), InnSuites Hospitality Trust (IHT), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), Power REIT (PW), Impac Mortgage (IMH), Transcontinental Realty Investors (TCI), Prologis (PLD), American Tower (AMT), Equinix (EQIX), and Welltower (WELL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Medalist Diversified REIT (NASDAQ:MDRR) and Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (NASDAQ:WHLR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Medalist Diversified REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Medalist Diversified REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medalist Diversified REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 85.3%. Medalist Diversified REIT pays out -8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -0.2% 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.
Medalist Diversified REIT has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust received 159 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 63.95% of users gave Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
17.4% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.9% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.6% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Medalist Diversified REIT and Medalist Diversified REIT both had 3 articles in the media. Medalist Diversified REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.89 indicating that Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of -10.08% compared to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's net margin of -19.20%. Medalist Diversified REIT's return on equity of 0.00% beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust beats Medalist Diversified REIT on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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