EFC vs. IIPR, CWK, UE, FOR, GTY, KW, AHH, CMTG, LPA, and HPP
Should you be buying Ellington Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Financial include Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Urban Edge Properties (UE), Forestar Group (FOR), Getty Realty (GTY), Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), Latam Logistic Properties (LPA), and Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE:IIPR) and Ellington Financial (NYSE:EFC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
In the previous week, Innovative Industrial Properties had 2 more articles in the media than Ellington Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Innovative Industrial Properties and 5 mentions for Ellington Financial. Ellington Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Innovative Industrial Properties' score of 0.73 indicating that Innovative Industrial Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.6% of Innovative Industrial Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.6% of Ellington Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Innovative Industrial Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Ellington Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Innovative Industrial Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Ellington Financial. Innovative Industrial Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ellington Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ellington Financial has a net margin of 66.65% compared to Ellington Financial's net margin of 53.07%. Innovative Industrial Properties' return on equity of 10.51% beat Ellington Financial's return on equity.
Innovative Industrial Properties has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ellington Financial has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Innovative Industrial Properties currently has a consensus target price of $99.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.15%. Ellington Financial has a consensus target price of $13.95, suggesting a potential upside of 15.10%. Given Innovative Industrial Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ellington Financial is more favorable than Innovative Industrial Properties.
Innovative Industrial Properties received 39 more outperform votes than Ellington Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.97% of users gave Innovative Industrial Properties an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave Ellington Financial an outperform vote.
Innovative Industrial Properties pays an annual dividend of $7.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Ellington Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Innovative Industrial Properties pays out 127.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ellington Financial pays out 243.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Innovative Industrial Properties has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Ellington Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Innovative Industrial Properties beats Ellington Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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