ORC vs. LAND, CLDT, UHT, OLP, CTO, PKST, ACRE, FPI, NLOP, and GMRE
Should you be buying Orchid Island Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orchid Island Capital include Gladstone Land (LAND), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Farmland Partners (FPI), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and Orchid Island Capital (NYSE:ORC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Gladstone Land received 64 more outperform votes than Orchid Island Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.59% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Orchid Island Capital an outperform vote.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Orchid Island Capital has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of Orchid Island Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Orchid Island Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Orchid Island Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.0%. Gladstone Land pays out -207.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orchid Island Capital pays out -271.7% 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. Gladstone Land has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Orchid Island Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gladstone Land has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orchid Island Capital. Gladstone Land is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orchid Island Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 0.00%. Orchid Island Capital's return on equity of 1.99% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
In the previous week, Orchid Island Capital had 3 more articles in the media than Gladstone Land. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Orchid Island Capital and 8 mentions for Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Orchid Island Capital's score of 0.17 indicating that Orchid Island Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Orchid Island Capital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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