CTO vs. ACRE, CLDT, NLOP, IVR, ORC, BRT, LAND, PSTL, REFI, and OLP
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), BRT Apartments (BRT), Gladstone Land (LAND), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), and One Liberty Properties (OLP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) and CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -120.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CTO Realty Growth pays out 276.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CTO Realty Growth has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, CTO Realty Growth had 2 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for CTO Realty Growth and 0 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat CTO Realty Growth's score of 0.44 indicating that CTO Realty Growth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 303 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote while only 29.27% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Commercial Real Estate presently has a consensus target price of $8.42, suggesting a potential upside of 23.41%. CTO Realty Growth has a consensus target price of $19.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.61%. Given CTO Realty Growth's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than CTO Realty Growth.
41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CTO Realty Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTO Realty Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 15.43% compared to CTO Realty Growth's net margin of -54.60%. Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity of 3.70% beat CTO Realty Growth's return on equity.
Summary
CTO Realty Growth beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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