KREF vs. TRTX, INN, CHCT, WSR, DHC, GMRE, NYMT, DX, FPI, and PKST
Should you be buying KKR Real Estate Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust include TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Dynex Capital (DX), Farmland Partners (FPI), and Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
TPG RE Finance Trust (NYSE:TRTX) and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (NYSE:KREF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
TPG RE Finance Trust presently has a consensus target price of $8.10, indicating a potential downside of 8.68%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a consensus target price of $11.96, indicating a potential upside of 21.10%. Given TPG RE Finance Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is more favorable than TPG RE Finance Trust.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TPG RE Finance Trust. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TPG RE Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust received 43 more outperform votes than TPG RE Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.08% of users gave TPG RE Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave KKR Real Estate Finance Trust an outperform vote.
TPG RE Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. TPG RE Finance Trust pays out -61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays out -217.4% 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.
TPG RE Finance Trust has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
57.1% of TPG RE Finance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of TPG RE Finance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, KKR Real Estate Finance Trust had 2 more articles in the media than TPG RE Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust and 1 mentions for TPG RE Finance Trust. TPG RE Finance Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's score of 1.15 indicating that KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a net margin of -1.39% compared to KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's net margin of -27.55%. TPG RE Finance Trust's return on equity of 10.38% beat KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's return on equity.
Summary
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust beats TPG RE Finance Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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