NREF vs. PGRE, CIM, ARR, PLYM, NXRT, SVC, BFS, RWT, BDN, and DX
Should you be buying NexPoint Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Real Estate Finance include Paramount Group (PGRE), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Saul Centers (BFS), Redwood Trust (RWT), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), and Dynex Capital (DX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) and Paramount Group (NYSE:PGRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.59%. Paramount Group has a consensus target price of $4.60, suggesting a potential upside of 2.00%. Given NexPoint Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe NexPoint Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Paramount Group.
67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.6% of Paramount Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.0% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Paramount Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Group has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paramount Group received 197 more outperform votes than NexPoint Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.33% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 48.02% of users gave Paramount Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NexPoint Real Estate Finance had 2 more articles in the media than Paramount Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance and 1 mentions for Paramount Group. Paramount Group's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Paramount Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 23.44% compared to Paramount Group's net margin of -33.85%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 3.78% beat Paramount Group's return on equity.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.4%. Paramount Group pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out -363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paramount Group pays out -12.1% 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. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Group. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paramount Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NexPoint Real Estate Finance beats Paramount Group on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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