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STHO vs. CMTG, HOUS, MLP, RITR, ARL, AOMR, BEEP, MRCC, STRS, and SRG

Should you be buying Star stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Star include Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS), Maui Land & Pineapple (MLP), Reitar Logtech (RITR), American Realty Investors (ARL), Angel Oak Mortgage REIT (AOMR), Mobile Infrastructure (BEEP), Monroe Capital (MRCC), Stratus Properties (STRS), and Seritage Growth Properties (SRG). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.

Star vs.

Claros Mortgage Trust (NYSE:CMTG) and Star (NASDAQ:STHO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Star has a net margin of -76.57% compared to Claros Mortgage Trust's net margin of -89.07%. Claros Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 4.72% beat Star's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Claros Mortgage Trust-89.07% 4.72% 1.35%
Star -76.57%-33.53%-20.35%

Claros Mortgage Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Star. Claros Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Claros Mortgage Trust$97.78M3.39$6.03M-$1.59-1.49
Star$88.86M0.97-$196.36M-$6.52-0.99

89.5% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Star shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Star shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Claros Mortgage Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Star. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Claros Mortgage Trust and 1 mentions for Star. Claros Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Star's score of 0.00 indicating that Claros Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Claros Mortgage Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Star
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Claros Mortgage Trust received 8 more outperform votes than Star when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Claros Mortgage TrustOutperform Votes
8
18.60%
Underperform Votes
35
81.40%
StarN/AN/A

Claros Mortgage Trust currently has a consensus target price of $3.88, suggesting a potential upside of 63.09%. Given Claros Mortgage Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Claros Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Star.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Claros Mortgage Trust
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83
Star
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Claros Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Claros Mortgage Trust beats Star on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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STHO vs. The Competition

MetricStarReal property lessors IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$86.31M$200.32M$10.86B$7.35B
Dividend YieldN/A5.94%5.78%4.31%
P/E Ratio-0.9927.2521.5617.82
Price / Sales0.974.1325.4697.68
Price / CashN/A17.8817.6234.64
Price / Book0.253.952.563.98
Net Income-$196.36M-$48.32M$1.03B$247.81M
7 Day Performance-0.77%0.50%1.82%3.19%
1 Month Performance-20.78%-7.28%-4.03%-7.70%
1 Year Performance-45.32%-15.46%535.48%1.49%

Star Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STHO
Star
0.394 of 5 stars
$6.48
+3.5%
N/A-45.3%$86.31M$88.86M-0.99N/AGap Down
CMTG
Claros Mortgage Trust
2.8734 of 5 stars
$2.49
+7.8%
$4.31
+73.2%
-73.5%$347.01M$97.78M-1.57N/AAnalyst Forecast
News Coverage
HOUS
Anywhere Real Estate
0.7591 of 5 stars
$3.18
+4.6%
$3.00
-5.7%
-45.5%$339.86M$5.69B-2.749,660Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
MLP
Maui Land & Pineapple
0.2733 of 5 stars
$15.70
-1.3%
N/A-22.4%$309.97M$11.57M-68.269
RITR
Reitar Logtech
N/A$3.70
+15.6%
N/AN/A$229.86M$372.54M0.0053Gap Down
ARL
American Realty Investors
0.9449 of 5 stars
$11.75
+0.3%
N/A-22.0%$189.79M$47.32M-11.41N/AShort Interest ↓
AOMR
Angel Oak Mortgage REIT
4.4724 of 5 stars
$7.78
+3.7%
$12.10
+55.5%
-31.6%$176.25M$51.46M2.65900Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
BEEP
Mobile Infrastructure
2.1002 of 5 stars
$4.00
+1.3%
$5.67
+41.7%
+24.3%$170.40M$37.01M-4.4414Gap Down
MRCC
Monroe Capital
1.8626 of 5 stars
$7.18
+4.5%
$7.63
+6.2%
+0.6%$155.56M$14.59M11.97N/AShort Interest ↓
News Coverage
STRS
Stratus Properties
0.5399 of 5 stars
$19.03
-0.4%
N/A-20.1%$153.63M$54.18M135.9370Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
SRG
Seritage Growth Properties
0.4286 of 5 stars
$2.63
-0.8%
N/A-69.1%$148.14M$17.62M-1.0340Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:STHO) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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