CIO vs. KREF, BRSP, SITC, PAX, PLYM, NOAH, ABL, TRTX, ORC, and AACT
Should you be buying City Office REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City Office REIT include KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), SITE Centers (SITC), Patria Investments (PAX), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Noah (NOAH), Abacus Life (ABL), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
City Office REIT vs.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (NYSE:KREF) and City Office REIT (NYSE:CIO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. City Office REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust pays out 555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. City Office REIT pays out -64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a net margin of 6.30% compared to City Office REIT's net margin of -10.33%. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's return on equity of 8.53% beat City Office REIT's return on equity.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust presently has a consensus target price of $12.46, indicating a potential upside of 13.31%. Given KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is more favorable than City Office REIT.
70.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of City Office REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of City Office REIT shares are owned by company 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.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than City Office REIT. City Office REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City Office REIT received 27 more outperform votes than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.05% of users gave KKR Real Estate Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave City Office REIT an outperform vote.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, City Office REIT has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, City Office REIT had 8 more articles in the media than KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for City Office REIT and 4 mentions for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat City Office REIT's score of 0.39 indicating that KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust beats City Office REIT on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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