LAND vs. PKST, OLP, UHT, ORC, IVR, FPI, NYMT, CLDT, DHC, and GMRE
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Farmland Partners (FPI), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE:PKST) and Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Gladstone Land received 359 more outperform votes than Peakstone Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.71% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Peakstone Realty Trust an outperform vote.
39.0% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 2 more articles in the media than Peakstone Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gladstone Land and 1 mentions for Peakstone Realty Trust. Peakstone Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Gladstone Land's score of -0.10 indicating that Gladstone Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Land has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Peakstone Realty Trust. Peakstone Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peakstone Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Peakstone Realty Trust pays out -5.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Land pays out 933.5% 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 Land has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Peakstone Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Peakstone Realty Trust presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.73%. Gladstone Land has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.85%. Given Gladstone Land's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Peakstone Realty Trust is more favorable than Gladstone Land.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 29.49% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of -224.52%. Peakstone Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.63% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Peakstone Realty Trust on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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