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Creative Media (CMCT) AI Stock Analysis
Creative Media
(NASDAQ:CMCT)
CMCT earns a deeply distressed overall score of 44, driven primarily by severe financial instability and extremely weak valuation metrics. The company faces critical structural unprofitability, alarming cash burn rates, and a heavily leveraged balance sheet, compounded by a deeply negative P/E ratio and the lack of a dividend. While the latest earnings call offered a glimmer of hope via a strong multifamily occupancy recovery and technical indicators show short-term bullish momentum, these minor positives are vastly outweighed by lingering uncertainties surrounding commercial asset refinancing and severe solvency risks.
Creative Media (CMCT) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
- Market Cap
- $8.16M
- Dividend Yield
- ―
- Average Volume (3M)
- 571.04K
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- -0.0
- Beta (1Y)
- 3.91
- Revenue Growth
- -3.82%
- EPS Growth
- 90.89%
- Country
- US
- Employees
- 5
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Sector Strength
- 65
- Industry
- REIT - Office
Creative Media Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation (CMCT) is a real estate investment trust. It owns, operates and develops premier multifamily and creative office assets in vibrant communities throughout the United States. CMCT is a leader in creative off...
How the Company Makes Money
CMCT primarily makes money from (1) rental income generated by leasing space in its owned properties to commercial tenants, and (2) other property-level income customary for retail/mixed-use real estate (e.g., reimbursements/expense recoveries from t...
Creative Media Earnings Call Summary
The call conveyed clear operational improvements — notably a strong multifamily recovery (high occupancy and a 238% multifamily NOI increase), improving hotel performance after renovations, higher leased office occupancy outside Oakland, and meaningful improvements in FFO/Core FFO driven by reduced preferred dividends. However, results were tempered by significant noncash losses from unconsolidated entities (~$2.8 million), an Office NOI decline driven by JV fair value adjustments, ongoing negative FFO/Core FFO (though improved), and refinancing uncertainty at the Oakland office. Management emphasized balance sheet strengthening and active refinancing/asset-sale strategies to close valuation gaps.
Q2-2026 Updates
Positive Updates
Negative Updates
Company Guidance
Management's guidance was that they expect FFO to improve in 2026–2027 as operating trends strengthen across multifamily, office and hotel assets: excluding a $2.8M increase in JV losses consolidated NOI rose 22% YoY and core FFO improved by $3.6M. Q2 segment NOI was $9.3M (or $12.5M excluding loss from unconsolidated entities) versus $9.8M a year ago (or $10.3M ex‑loss); loss from unconsolidated entities was $3.2M (vs $0.437M). Reported FFO was negative $3.5M (‑$1.28/diluted share) and Core FFO negative $3.4M (‑$1.25/share), aided by a $4.3M reduction in preferred dividends and $0.8M lower transaction costs. Multifamily strength was highlighted: same‑store occupancy 95.3% (up 1,190 bps), CMCT multifamily occupancy ~96.1% (up >1,200 bps), multifamily segment occupancy 93.6% (vs 83.4% a year ago), multifamily NOI +238% (segment NOI $638k vs $189k) and in‑place rents ~12% below asking. Office leasing improved (≈16,000 sq ft executed; leased occupancy ex‑Oakland 84.4%, up 470 bps) though office NOI fell to $4.0M from $5.5M largely due to fair‑value adjustments; hotel NOI rose 11% (Q2 hotel NOI $4.6M vs $4.2M) after renovation of all 505 guestrooms (with a potential +8 rooms opportunity). Balance‑sheet actions include extending the 1150 Clay mortgage to mid‑2027, pursuing refinancing of the Sheraton Grand, and ongoing resolution of the matured Oakland office mortgage (that asset generated ≈$445k of income after debt service in Q2).
Creative Media Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Assigned the minimum score of 37. CMCT is experiencing severe operational distress characterized by deeply negative profitability margins, alarming cash burn, and a negative gross profit. Compounded by a highly leveraged balance sheet with a Debt-to-Equity ratio of 2.03x and eroding equity, the company faces substantial liquidity and solvency risks.
Income Statement
15Very NegativeBalance Sheet
20Very NegativeCash Flow
12Very Negative| Breakdown | TTM | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 | Mar 2023 | Dec 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | ||||||
| Total Revenue | 113.78M | 116.67M | 124.51M | 119.26M | 101.91M | 90.93M |
| Gross Profit | -13.60M | -11.98M | 51.70M | 51.84M | 47.53M | 47.68M |
| EBITDA | 25.16M | 28.31M | 39.65M | 37.54M | 37.18M | 31.74M |
| Net Income | -42.09M | -39.00M | -25.18M | -48.48M | 5.92M | -850.00K |
Balance Sheet | ||||||
| Total Assets | 782.94M | 859.19M | 889.55M | 891.20M | 690.25M | 660.87M |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 12.77M | 15.44M | 20.26M | 19.29M | 46.19M | 22.31M |
| Total Debt | 498.77M | 509.77M | 505.73M | 471.56M | 184.27M | 201.15M |
| Total Liabilities | 536.98M | 592.94M | 562.49M | 514.43M | 312.52M | 249.53M |
| Stockholders Equity | 245.27M | 265.36M | 325.31M | 374.40M | 377.36M | 410.99M |
Cash Flow | ||||||
| Free Cash Flow | -29.85M | -15.00M | -6.24M | -1.33M | 23.59M | 42.23M |
| Operating Cash Flow | -15.48M | 5.79M | 17.03M | 12.00M | 32.41M | 46.28M |
| Investing Cash Flow | 33.94M | -16.40M | -22.29M | -88.69M | -22.27M | -12.70M |
| Financing Cash Flow | -39.60M | -4.57M | 13.90M | 63.45M | 13.69M | -43.58M |
Creative Media Technical Analysis
Price Trends
Market Momentum
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For CMCT, the sentiment is Negative. The current price of 3.19 is below the 20-day moving average (MA) of 4.01, below the 50-day MA of 3.48, and below the 200-day MA of 56.21, indicating a bearish trend. The MACD of -0.02 indicates Positive momentum. The RSI at 45.06 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 19.49 is Positive, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Negative sentiment for CMCT.
Creative Media Risk Analysis
Creative Media disclosed 2 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Creative Media reported the most risks in the "Tech & Innovation" category.
Latest Risks Added
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Overall Rating
NYC49Neutral
FSP48Neutral
ONL45Neutral- CMCT44Neutral
Financial Indicators
| Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sector * | 65Neutral | $2.17B | 12.19 | 3.79% | 4.94% | 3.15% | 1.96% |
| NYC | 49Neutral | $18.86M | 1.22 | 21.10% | ― | -38.85% | ― |
| FSP | 48Neutral | $41.73M | -0.98 | -7.23% | 9.97% | -5.12% | 7.99% |
| ONL | 45Neutral | $135.20M | -1.41 | -14.88% | 3.38% | -6.53% | -20.91% |
| CMCT | 44Neutral | $9.40M | -0.03 | -16.06% | ― | -3.82% | 90.89% |
* Real Estate Sector Average
Performance Comparison
| Show on chart | Ticker | Company Name | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMCT | Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation | 3.19 | -530.81 | -99.40% | |
| FSP | Franklin Street Properties | 0.40 | -0.81 | -67.02% | |
| NYC | New York City Reit, Inc. | 5.96 | -3.26 | -35.36% | |
| ONL | Orion Office Reit, Inc. | 2.37 | 0.04 | 1.76% | |
| NLOP | Net Lease Office Properties | 8.96 | -1.38 | -13.38% |
Creative Media Corporate Events
Creative Media Reports Narrowed Loss, Strong Operational Progress
PositiveFor the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, CMCT reported a narrowed net loss attributable to common stockholders of $11.0 million, or $4.03 per diluted share, driven mainly by lower preferred stock dividends despite modestly weaker segment net opera...
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Date of analysis: Oct 20, 2026