AJX vs. LAND, ORC, IVR, PKST, CLDT, CTO, ACRE, NLOP, BRT, and PSTL
Should you be buying Great Ajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Ajax include Gladstone Land (LAND), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), BRT Apartments (BRT), and Postal Realty Trust (PSTL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and Great Ajax (NYSE:AJX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 29.49% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 0.00%. Great Ajax's return on equity of 3.63% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Gladstone Land received 111 more outperform votes than Great Ajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.71% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Great Ajax an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Great Ajax had 3 more articles in the media than Gladstone Land. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Great Ajax and 0 mentions for Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Great Ajax's score of 0.00 indicating that Great Ajax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Land presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.66%. Great Ajax has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 126.59%. Given Gladstone Land's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Great Ajax is more favorable than Gladstone Land.
Gladstone Land has higher revenue and earnings than Great Ajax. Great Ajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Ajax has a beta of 1.88, meaning that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Great Ajax shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Great Ajax shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Great Ajax pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. 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. Great Ajax pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Land has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Great Ajax is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Great Ajax on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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