LAND vs. VRE, SILA, ELME, LADR, WT, NTST, NAVI, ESRT, JBGS, and UNIT
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include Veris Residential (VRE), Sila Realty Trust (SILA), Elme Communities (ELME), Ladder Capital (LADR), WisdomTree (WT), NETSTREIT (NTST), Navient (NAVI), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), and Uniti Group (UNIT). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Gladstone Land vs.
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veris Residential has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Land received 354 more outperform votes than Veris Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Veris Residential an outperform vote.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Veris Residential shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 15.59% compared to Veris Residential's net margin of -5.70%. Gladstone Land's return on equity of 1.89% beat Veris Residential's return on equity.
Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Veris Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Gladstone Land pays out -193.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veris Residential pays out -100.0% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gladstone Land currently has a consensus target price of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 56.17%. Veris Residential has a consensus target price of $18.75, indicating a potential upside of 20.50%. Given Gladstone Land's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Gladstone Land is more favorable than Veris Residential.
In the previous week, Veris Residential had 7 more articles in the media than Gladstone Land. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Veris Residential and 4 mentions for Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Veris Residential's score of 0.59 indicating that Gladstone Land is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Land has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Veris Residential. Veris Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Veris Residential on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LAND) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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