EARN vs. DHC, NYMT, FPI, UHT, OLP, LAND, ORC, PKST, CLDT, and CTO
Should you be buying Ellington Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Credit include Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Farmland Partners (FPI), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), and CTO Realty Growth (CTO). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ellington Credit (NYSE:EARN) and Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
Ellington Credit has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ellington Credit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ellington Credit has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ellington Credit currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.01%. Diversified Healthcare Trust has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 85.19%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Ellington Credit.
Diversified Healthcare Trust received 104 more outperform votes than Ellington Credit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote while only 51.35% of users gave Ellington Credit an outperform vote.
Ellington Credit has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -22.80%. Ellington Credit's return on equity of 12.21% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
20.4% of Ellington Credit shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Ellington Credit shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ellington Credit and Ellington Credit both had 4 articles in the media. Ellington Credit's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's score of 0.64 indicating that Ellington Credit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ellington Credit pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ellington Credit pays out 331.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Ellington Credit beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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