GOOD vs. LMRK, AAT, WSR, OLP, GYRO, SAFE, VNO, CUZ, LXP, and STHO
Should you be buying Gladstone Commercial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Commercial include Landmark Infrastructure Partners (LMRK), American Assets Trust (AAT), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Safehold (SAFE), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), and Star (STHO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) and Landmark Infrastructure Partners (NASDAQ:LMRK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Gladstone Commercial currently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.56%. Given Gladstone Commercial's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Gladstone Commercial is more favorable than Landmark Infrastructure Partners.
Gladstone Commercial received 18 more outperform votes than Landmark Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.14% of users gave Gladstone Commercial an outperform vote while only 52.30% of users gave Landmark Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gladstone Commercial had 4 more articles in the media than Landmark Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Gladstone Commercial and 0 mentions for Landmark Infrastructure Partners. Gladstone Commercial's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Landmark Infrastructure Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Gladstone Commercial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Commercial has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landmark Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gladstone Commercial. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Infrastructure Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Commercial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Landmark Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Gladstone Commercial pays out -631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Landmark Infrastructure Partners pays out 285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Commercial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners has a net margin of 28.52% compared to Gladstone Commercial's net margin of 3.60%. Landmark Infrastructure Partners' return on equity of 9.18% beat Gladstone Commercial's return on equity.
45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of Landmark Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Landmark Infrastructure Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats Landmark Infrastructure Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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