NYC vs. CMCT, CLPR, LOAN, SELF, AHT, SOHO, GIPR, MDRR, SQFT, and IMH
Should you be buying American Strategic Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Strategic Investment include Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (CMCT), Clipper Realty (CLPR), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), Global Self Storage (SELF), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Generation Income Properties (GIPR), Medalist Diversified REIT (MDRR), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), and Impac Mortgage (IMH). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
American Strategic Investment (NYSE:NYC) and Creative Media & Community Trust Co. (NASDAQ:CMCT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. received 169 more outperform votes than American Strategic Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.39% of users gave Creative Media & Community Trust Co. an outperform vote while only 6.25% of users gave American Strategic Investment an outperform vote.
American Strategic Investment has a beta of -0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has higher revenue and earnings than American Strategic Investment. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Strategic Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a net margin of -36.40% compared to American Strategic Investment's net margin of -162.43%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s return on equity of 0.00% beat American Strategic Investment's return on equity.
American Strategic Investment presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.04%. Creative Media & Community Trust Co. has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.89%. Given Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is more favorable than American Strategic Investment.
In the previous week, American Strategic Investment and American Strategic Investment both had 4 articles in the media. Creative Media & Community Trust Co.'s average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat American Strategic Investment's score of 0.12 indicating that Creative Media & Community Trust Co. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
48.0% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of American Strategic Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.6% of Creative Media & Community Trust Co. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Creative Media & Community Trust Co. beats American Strategic Investment on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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