GPMT vs. GMRE, DHC, NYMT, FPI, UHT, OLP, LAND, PKST, ORC, and IVR
Should you be buying Granite Point Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Point Mortgage Trust include Global Medical REIT (GMRE), 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), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE:GPMT) and Global Medical REIT (NYSE:GMRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
51.6% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.5% of Global Medical REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Global Medical REIT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Global Medical REIT has a net margin of 13.77% compared to Granite Point Mortgage Trust's net margin of -40.36%. Global Medical REIT's return on equity of 3.54% beat Granite Point Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.4%. Global Medical REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Granite Point Mortgage Trust pays out -26.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Medical REIT pays out 365.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Granite Point Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus price target of $6.56, indicating a potential upside of 122.84%. Global Medical REIT has a consensus price target of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 23.63%. Given Granite Point Mortgage Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Granite Point Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Global Medical REIT.
Global Medical REIT has higher revenue and earnings than Granite Point Mortgage Trust. Granite Point Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Medical REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Granite Point Mortgage Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Global Medical REIT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Granite Point Mortgage Trust and 0 mentions for Global Medical REIT. Granite Point Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Global Medical REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Granite Point Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Global Medical REIT received 76 more outperform votes than Granite Point Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.57% of users gave Global Medical REIT an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Granite Point Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
Granite Point Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Medical REIT has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Global Medical REIT beats Granite Point Mortgage Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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