5 Value Stocks In The Real Estate Sector

What Defines a Value Stock?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

Below is a list of notable value stocks in the real estate sector:

1. Chicago Atlantic Real REFI - P/E: 7.54
2. Starwood Prop Trust STWD - P/E: 9.79
3. IRSA Inversiones y IRS - P/E: 3.21
4. AFC Gamma AFCG - P/E: 6.8
5. Forestar Group FOR - P/E: 7.47

This quarter, Chicago Atlantic Real experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $0.57 in Q4 and is now $0.62. Starwood Prop Trust saw a decrease in earnings per share from 0.5 in Q4 to $0.49 now. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 10.95%, which has increased by 1.33% from 9.62% last quarter.

Most recently, IRSA Inversiones y reported earnings per share at $0.92, whereas in Q2 earnings per share sat at $0.0. AFC Gamma saw a decrease in earnings per share from 0.62 in Q4 to $0.57 now. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 14.37%, which has increased by 0.69% from last quarter's yield of 13.68%.

Forestar Group has reported Q2 earnings per share at $0.54, which has increased by 28.57% compared to Q1, which was 0.42.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.