LFT vs. AJX, EARN, CHMI, MDV, ACR, GPMT, CMCT, CLPR, BHR, and LOAN
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Great Ajax (AJX), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), Modiv Industrial (MDV), ACRES Commercial Realty (ACR), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), and Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Great Ajax has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lument Finance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Great Ajax. Great Ajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lument Finance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.6% of Great Ajax shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Great Ajax shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lument Finance Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Great Ajax. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lument Finance Trust and 2 mentions for Great Ajax. Lument Finance Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Great Ajax's score of 1.27 indicating that Great Ajax is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Great Ajax pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lument Finance Trust pays out 87.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lument Finance Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Lument Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Great Ajax currently has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 108.91%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.58, indicating a potential upside of 4.17%. Given Lument Finance Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Great Ajax is more favorable than Lument Finance Trust.
Lument Finance Trust has a net margin of 16.43% compared to Lument Finance Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Great Ajax's return on equity of 12.59% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
Great Ajax received 133 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.25% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.
Summary
Lument Finance Trust beats Great Ajax on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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