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AJX vs. CHCT, NLOP, PKST, ANSC, BIOX, NETD, IPXX, LAND, TINV, and MSB

Should you be buying Great Ajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Ajax include Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition (ANSC), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (NETD), Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II (IPXX), Gladstone Land (LAND), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), and Mesabi Trust (MSB). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.

Great Ajax vs.

Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) and Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.

58.6% of Great Ajax shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Great Ajax shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Community Healthcare Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Great Ajax-$89.73M0.00-$47.07M-$3.77N/A
Community Healthcare Trust$115.61M4.48$7.71M-$0.09-203.56

Great Ajax currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Community Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $21.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.99%. Given Community Healthcare Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Community Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Great Ajax.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Great Ajax
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Community Healthcare Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Great Ajax has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Healthcare Trust has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Community Healthcare Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Great Ajax. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Community Healthcare Trust and 1 mentions for Great Ajax. Community Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Great Ajax's score of 0.00 indicating that Community Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Great Ajax
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Community Healthcare Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Community Healthcare Trust has a net margin of -0.39% compared to Great Ajax's net margin of -203.61%. Community Healthcare Trust's return on equity of -0.09% beat Great Ajax's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Great Ajax-203.61% -8.35% -1.99%
Community Healthcare Trust -0.39%-0.09%-0.05%

Community Healthcare Trust received 48 more outperform votes than Great Ajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave Community Healthcare Trust an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Great AjaxOutperform Votes
248
57.14%
Underperform Votes
186
42.86%
Community Healthcare TrustOutperform Votes
296
61.92%
Underperform Votes
182
38.08%

Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share. Community Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Great Ajax pays out -6.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Healthcare Trust pays out -2,066.7% 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. Community Healthcare Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Community Healthcare Trust beats Great Ajax on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AJX vs. The Competition

MetricGreat AjaxReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$137.17M$7.00B$11.22B$19.18B
Dividend Yield7.89%6.84%9.82%3.61%
P/E Ratio-0.8042.8026.7141.30
Price / SalesN/A7.8336.4317.58
Price / CashN/A17.7918.5921.28
Price / BookN/A2.542.755.32
Net Income-$47.07M$146.30M$1.04B$989.88M

Great Ajax Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJX
Great Ajax
3.6601 of 5 stars
N/A$6.00
+∞
N/A$137.17M$-89,729,000.00-0.80N/AAnalyst Forecast
News Coverage
CHCT
Community Healthcare Trust
2.7793 of 5 stars
$18.50
+2.3%
$21.00
+13.5%
-31.7%$522.48M$115.61M-201.0037Analyst Forecast
Positive News
NLOP
Net Lease Office Properties
2.2759 of 5 stars
$32.55
+1.3%
$46.00
+41.3%
+89.9%$481.25M$160.91M0.00N/A
PKST
Peakstone Realty Trust
2.2349 of 5 stars
$13.20
+7.1%
$15.00
+13.6%
-43.1%$480.22M$254.28M-11.2035News Coverage
ANSC
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition
N/A$10.45
+0.1%
N/AN/A$450.60MN/A0.00N/APositive News
BIOX
Bioceres Crop Solutions
3.6795 of 5 stars
$6.94
+4.2%
$12.13
+74.7%
-54.5%$436.17M$441.27M344.50500News Coverage
NETD
Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II
N/A$10.78
+0.1%
N/A+4.0%$410.99MN/A0.00N/A
IPXX
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II
N/A$13.04
+3.5%
N/A+6.5%$407.50MN/A0.00N/APositive News
LAND
Gladstone Land
3.4861 of 5 stars
$11.09
-1.1%
$15.50
+39.8%
-26.8%$401.29M$88.57M-43.1270
TINV
Tiga Acquisition
N/A$11.63
-2.3%
N/A+104.0%$401.24MN/A0.00N/AGap Down
MSB
Mesabi Trust
1.8645 of 5 stars
$28.96
+14.0%
N/A+36.0%$379.96M$22.92M3.88N/AEarnings Report
Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:AJX) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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