BXMT vs. GRP.U, EPR, SKT, SBRA, HHH, MPW, HIW, SITC, CTRE, and BNL
Should you be buying Blackstone Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackstone Mortgage Trust include Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), EPR Properties (EPR), Tanger (SKT), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Howard Hughes (HHH), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Highwoods Properties (HIW), SITE Centers (SITC), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), and Broadstone Net Lease (BNL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (NYSE:GRP.U) and Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple had 6 more articles in the media than Blackstone Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple and 3 mentions for Blackstone Mortgage Trust. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's score of 0.33 indicating that Blackstone Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $19.93, indicating a potential upside of 8.54%. Given Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Blackstone Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple has a net margin of 40.76% compared to Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's net margin of 0.24%. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple's return on equity of 10.72% beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays an annual dividend of $2.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple pays out 91.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays out 8,266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple. Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust received 431 more outperform votes than Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Blackstone Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple an outperform vote.
57.1% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust 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.
Summary
Blackstone Mortgage Trust beats Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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