NREF vs. ILPT, PINE, ONL, CIO, FSP, MITT, REFI, PSTL, BHR, and BRT
Should you be buying NexPoint Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexPoint Real Estate Finance include Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Orion Office REIT (ONL), City Office REIT (CIO), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), and BRT Apartments (BRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NYSE:NREF) and Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (NASDAQ:ILPT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
67.8% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 54.0% of NexPoint Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust had 1 more articles in the media than NexPoint Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Industrial Logistics Properties Trust and 3 mentions for NexPoint Real Estate Finance. Industrial Logistics Properties Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat NexPoint Real Estate Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Industrial Logistics Properties Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Industrial Logistics Properties Trust received 176 more outperform votes than NexPoint Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.74% of users gave Industrial Logistics Properties Trust an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave NexPoint Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 23.44% compared to Industrial Logistics Properties Trust's net margin of -24.26%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 3.78% beat Industrial Logistics Properties Trust's return on equity.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Industrial Logistics Properties Trust. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Industrial Logistics Properties Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.48%. Given NexPoint Real Estate Finance's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NexPoint Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Industrial Logistics Properties Trust.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. Industrial Logistics Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. NexPoint Real Estate Finance pays out -363.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Industrial Logistics Properties Trust pays out -2.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. NexPoint Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
NexPoint Real Estate Finance beats Industrial Logistics Properties Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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