GOOD vs. STHO, GMRE, ALTI, BTO, PSBD, SRG, PDT, HIPO, VGM, and GAMI
Should you be buying Gladstone Commercial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Commercial include Star (STHO), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), AlTi Global (ALTI), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT), Hippo (HIPO), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), and GAMCO Investors (GAMI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Star (NASDAQ:STHO) and Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
Gladstone Commercial has a consensus target price of $15.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Star's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gladstone Commercial is more favorable than Star.
In the previous week, Star had 68 more articles in the media than Gladstone Commercial. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Star and 7 mentions for Gladstone Commercial. Star's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Gladstone Commercial's score of -0.08 indicating that Gladstone Commercial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Commercial has higher revenue and earnings than Star. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.3% of Star shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Commercial has a net margin of 2.82% compared to Gladstone Commercial's net margin of -159.60%. Star's return on equity of 2.36% beat Gladstone Commercial's return on equity.
Gladstone Commercial received 267 more outperform votes than Star when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats Star on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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