FBRT vs. CIM, PGRE, MFA, ALX, UMH, CSR, AIV, SVC, PLYM, and ALEX
Should you be buying Franklin BSP Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin BSP Realty Trust include Chimera Investment (CIM), Paramount Group (PGRE), MFA Financial (MFA), Alexander's (ALX), UMH Properties (UMH), Centerspace (CSR), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), and Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust pays out 107.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chimera Investment pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust currently has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.25%. Chimera Investment has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.68%. Given Chimera Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Franklin BSP Realty Trust.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chimera Investment. Chimera Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin BSP Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.9% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Franklin BSP Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chimera Investment received 395 more outperform votes than Franklin BSP Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.31% of users gave Franklin BSP Realty Trust an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chimera Investment had 6 more articles in the media than Franklin BSP Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Chimera Investment and 1 mentions for Franklin BSP Realty Trust. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Franklin BSP Realty Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin BSP Realty Trust has a net margin of 53.82% compared to Chimera Investment's net margin of 25.73%. Franklin BSP Realty Trust's return on equity of 14.32% beat Chimera Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Franklin BSP Realty Trust beats Chimera Investment on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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