GPMT vs. MDV, BHR, EARN, MITT, FSP, CIO, AJX, ONL, LFT, and PINE
Should you be buying Granite Point Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Point Mortgage Trust include Modiv Industrial (MDV), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), City Office REIT (CIO), Great Ajax (AJX), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), and Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE:GPMT) and Modiv Industrial (NYSE:MDV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust received 197 more outperform votes than Modiv Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Modiv Industrial an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Granite Point Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust currently has a consensus price target of $6.56, suggesting a potential upside of 92.45%. Modiv Industrial has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.43%. Given Granite Point Mortgage Trust's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Granite Point Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Modiv Industrial.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.6%. Modiv Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays out -26.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Modiv Industrial pays out -244.7% 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.
Modiv Industrial has a net margin of 1.80% compared to Granite Point Mortgage Trust's net margin of -40.36%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 2.75% beat Modiv Industrial's return on equity.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Modiv Industrial has a beta of -0.22, indicating that its share price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Modiv Industrial had 4 more articles in the media than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Modiv Industrial and 0 mentions for Granite Point Mortgage Trust. Granite Point Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Modiv Industrial's score of 0.92 indicating that Granite Point Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
51.6% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Modiv Industrial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Modiv Industrial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Modiv Industrial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. Modiv Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Point Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Granite Point Mortgage Trust beats Modiv Industrial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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