NXRT vs. BFS, ARR, UNIT, PLYM, RWT, BDN, BRSP, SVC, DX, and CIM
Should you be buying NexPoint Residential Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Residential Trust include Saul Centers (BFS), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Uniti Group (UNIT), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Redwood Trust (RWT), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Dynex Capital (DX), and Chimera Investment (CIM). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) and NexPoint Residential Trust (NYSE:NXRT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexPoint Residential Trust has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Saul Centers currently has a consensus target price of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.17%. NexPoint Residential Trust has a consensus target price of $37.25, indicating a potential upside of 2.03%. Given NexPoint Residential Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than NexPoint Residential Trust.
Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. NexPoint Residential Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Saul Centers pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NexPoint Residential Trust pays out 65.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saul Centers has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and NexPoint Residential Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
50.0% of Saul Centers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of NexPoint Residential Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of NexPoint Residential Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Saul Centers had 11 more articles in the media than NexPoint Residential Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Saul Centers and 1 mentions for NexPoint Residential Trust. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat NexPoint Residential Trust's score of 1.21 indicating that NexPoint Residential Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saul Centers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NexPoint Residential Trust. NexPoint Residential Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NexPoint Residential Trust has a net margin of 27.02% compared to NexPoint Residential Trust's net margin of 20.25%. NexPoint Residential Trust's return on equity of 16.20% beat Saul Centers' return on equity.
Saul Centers received 55 more outperform votes than NexPoint Residential Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.70% of users gave NexPoint Residential Trust an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote.
Summary
NexPoint Residential Trust beats Saul Centers on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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