CTO vs. RLJ, ROIC, LTC, ESRT, ARI, LADR, RC, VRE, SAFE, and ELME
Should you be buying CTO Realty Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTO Realty Growth include RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), LTC Properties (LTC), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ladder Capital (LADR), Ready Capital (RC), Veris Residential (VRE), Safehold (SAFE), and Elme Communities (ELME). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) and RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 404 more outperform votes than CTO Realty Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.51% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 29.27% of users gave CTO Realty Growth an outperform vote.
CTO Realty Growth has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RLJ Lodging Trust has higher revenue and earnings than CTO Realty Growth. CTO Realty Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLJ Lodging Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CTO Realty Growth has a net margin of 15.43% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of 5.29%. CTO Realty Growth's return on equity of 3.70% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.
CTO Realty Growth pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. CTO Realty Growth pays out 276.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
CTO Realty Growth currently has a consensus price target of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 8.92%. RLJ Lodging Trust has a consensus price target of $13.90, indicating a potential upside of 39.35%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than CTO Realty Growth.
In the previous week, CTO Realty Growth had 6 more articles in the media than RLJ Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CTO Realty Growth and 1 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust. RLJ Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat CTO Realty Growth's score of 0.45 indicating that RLJ Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
67.2% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of CTO Realty Growth shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
CTO Realty Growth and RLJ Lodging Trust tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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