FPI vs. EQC, AHR, AKR, DRH, CXW, GNL, IVT, PEB, ROIC, and RLJ
Should you be buying Farmland Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmland Partners include Equity Commonwealth (EQC), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), Global Net Lease (GNL), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), and RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) and Equity Commonwealth (NYSE:EQC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
In the previous week, Equity Commonwealth had 6 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Equity Commonwealth and 1 mentions for Farmland Partners. Equity Commonwealth's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Farmland Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Equity Commonwealth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equity Commonwealth received 43 more outperform votes than Farmland Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.11% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote while only 55.66% of users gave Equity Commonwealth an outperform vote.
Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Commonwealth has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Equity Commonwealth has a net margin of 156.11% compared to Farmland Partners' net margin of 53.91%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 5.78% beat Equity Commonwealth's return on equity.
Farmland Partners presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.82%. Given Farmland Partners' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Farmland Partners is more favorable than Equity Commonwealth.
Equity Commonwealth has higher revenue and earnings than Farmland Partners. Farmland Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Commonwealth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Equity Commonwealth shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Equity Commonwealth shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
Equity Commonwealth beats Farmland Partners on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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