MDRR vs. WHLR, NYC, GIPR, SOHO, CWD, CNFR, JNVR, INTJ, NLIT, and FUFU
Should you be buying Medalist Diversified REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medalist Diversified REIT include Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (WHLR), American Strategic Investment (NYC), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), CaliberCos (CWD), Conifer (CNFR), Janover (JNVR), Intelligent Group (INTJ), Northern Lights Acquisition (NLIT), and BitFuFu (FUFU). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Medalist Diversified REIT (NASDAQ:MDRR) and Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (NASDAQ:WHLR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust received 159 more outperform votes than Medalist Diversified REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.30% of users gave Medalist Diversified REIT an outperform vote while only 63.95% of users gave Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Medalist Diversified REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 62.5%. Medalist Diversified REIT pays out -8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust pays out -0.2% 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.
Medalist Diversified REIT has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
17.4% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of Medalist Diversified REIT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.6% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are held 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.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of -10.08% compared to Medalist Diversified REIT's net margin of -19.20%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat Medalist Diversified REIT's return on equity.
Medalist Diversified REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Medalist Diversified REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Medalist Diversified REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Medalist Diversified REIT and 3 mentions for Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Medalist Diversified REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.05 indicating that Medalist Diversified REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust beats Medalist Diversified REIT on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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