MSB vs. NAVI, LADR, WT, UNIT, SILA, ELME, JBGS, DEA, SAFE, and RGTI
Should you be buying Mesabi Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mesabi Trust include Navient (NAVI), Ladder Capital (LADR), WisdomTree (WT), Uniti Group (UNIT), Sila Realty Trust (SILA), Elme Communities (ELME), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Safehold (SAFE), and Rigetti Computing (RGTI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Mesabi Trust vs.
Mesabi Trust (NYSE:MSB) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Mesabi Trust has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.1% of Navient shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Mesabi Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Navient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Navient received 277 more outperform votes than Mesabi Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.08% of users gave Mesabi Trust an outperform vote while only 48.08% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than Mesabi Trust. Mesabi Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navient has a consensus price target of $14.58, indicating a potential upside of 4.77%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Navient is more favorable than Mesabi Trust.
Mesabi Trust has a net margin of 93.80% compared to Navient's net margin of 1.71%. Mesabi Trust's return on equity of 231.09% beat Navient's return on equity.
In the previous week, Navient had 3 more articles in the media than Mesabi Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Navient and 3 mentions for Mesabi Trust. Mesabi Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Navient's score of -0.03 indicating that Mesabi Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mesabi Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Mesabi Trust pays out 22.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 92.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mesabi Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Navient beats Mesabi Trust on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MSB) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
