MSB vs. ESRT, SAFE, NAVI, NTST, UNIT, WT, JBGS, BRDG, DEA, and CSR
Should you be buying Mesabi Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mesabi Trust include Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Safehold (SAFE), Navient (NAVI), NETSTREIT (NTST), Uniti Group (UNIT), WisdomTree (WT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), and Centerspace (CSR). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Mesabi Trust vs.
Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE:ESRT) and Mesabi Trust (NYSE:MSB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Empire State Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Mesabi Trust pays an annual dividend of $23.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 84.5%. Empire State Realty Trust pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mesabi Trust pays out 339.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
67.1% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Empire State Realty Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Mesabi Trust shares are owned by company 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.
Empire State Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Mesabi Trust. Mesabi Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empire State Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Empire State Realty Trust received 93 more outperform votes than Mesabi Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.08% of users gave Mesabi Trust an outperform vote while only 50.42% of users gave Empire State Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Empire State Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.84%. Given Empire State Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Empire State Realty Trust is more favorable than Mesabi Trust.
In the previous week, Empire State Realty Trust had 10 more articles in the media than Mesabi Trust. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Empire State Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Mesabi Trust. Mesabi Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Empire State Realty Trust's score of 0.97 indicating that Mesabi Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mesabi Trust has a net margin of 93.80% compared to Empire State Realty Trust's net margin of 6.45%. Mesabi Trust's return on equity of 231.09% beat Empire State Realty Trust's return on equity.
Empire State Realty Trust has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesabi Trust has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Empire State Realty Trust beats Mesabi Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MSB) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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