FPI vs. DHC, GMRE, NYMT, UHT, PKST, OLP, LAND, WSR, ORC, and CLDT
Should you be buying Farmland Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmland Partners include Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) and Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ:DHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 53.91% compared to Diversified Healthcare Trust's net margin of -22.80%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 5.78% beat Diversified Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
Farmland Partners currently has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.63%. Diversified Healthcare Trust has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 80.00%. Given Diversified Healthcare Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Diversified Healthcare Trust is more favorable than Farmland Partners.
58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Farmland Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Diversified Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Healthcare Trust has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Farmland Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Diversified Healthcare Trust. Diversified Healthcare Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmland Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Healthcare Trust received 18 more outperform votes than Farmland Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.11% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Diversified Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Diversified Healthcare Trust had 8 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Diversified Healthcare Trust and 0 mentions for Farmland Partners. Diversified Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Farmland Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Diversified Healthcare Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Farmland Partners pays out 47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diversified Healthcare Trust pays out -2.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Farmland Partners beats Diversified Healthcare Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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