Exantas Capital (XAN) Competitors

Retail Opportunity Investments (NASDAQ:ROIC) and Exantas Capital (NYSE:XAN) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ROIC or XAN?

Retail Opportunity Investments received 268 more outperform votes than Exantas Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.26% of users gave Retail Opportunity Investments an outperform vote while only 26.11% of users gave Exantas Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Retail Opportunity Investments	Outperform Votes 327 53.26%	Underperform Votes 287 46.74%
Exantas Capital	Outperform Votes 59 26.11%	Underperform Votes 167 73.89%

Which has more volatility & risk, ROIC or XAN?

Retail Opportunity Investments has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Exantas Capital has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of ROIC or XAN?

97.2% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Exantas Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Retail Opportunity Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Exantas Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is ROIC or XAN a better dividend stock?

Retail Opportunity Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Exantas Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.8%. Retail Opportunity Investments pays out 130.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Exantas Capital pays out 330.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has better valuation & earnings, ROIC or XAN?

Exantas Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Retail Opportunity Investments. Exantas Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Retail Opportunity Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Retail Opportunity Investments	$327.73M	6.86	$34.53M	$0.46	37.91
Exantas Capital	$61.15M	9.24	$35.97M	$1.00	17.60

Do analysts prefer ROIC or XAN?

Retail Opportunity Investments currently has a consensus price target of $16.20, indicating a potential downside of 7.11%. Given Retail Opportunity Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Retail Opportunity Investments is more favorable than Exantas Capital.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Retail Opportunity Investments	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.86
Exantas Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is ROIC or XAN more profitable?

Retail Opportunity Investments has a net margin of 17.38% compared to Exantas Capital's net margin of -347.93%. Exantas Capital's return on equity of 8.10% beat Retail Opportunity Investments' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Retail Opportunity Investments	17.38%	4.32%	1.96%
Exantas Capital	-347.93%	8.10%	1.61%

Does the media prefer ROIC or XAN?

In the previous week, Retail Opportunity Investments had 3 more articles in the media than Exantas Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Retail Opportunity Investments and 0 mentions for Exantas Capital. Retail Opportunity Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.64 beat Exantas Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Retail Opportunity Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Retail Opportunity Investments	Very Positive
Exantas Capital	Neutral

Summary

Retail Opportunity Investments beats Exantas Capital on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.