LAND vs. FPI, JBGS, ESRT, BRDG, SAFE, SBR, DEA, CSR, PLYM, and FBRT
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include Farmland Partners (FPI), JBG SMITH Properties (JBGS), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Safehold (SAFE), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Easterly Government Properties (DEA), Centerspace (CSR), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), and Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Gladstone Land vs. Its Competitors
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 3 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Gladstone Land and 1 mentions for Farmland Partners. Farmland Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Gladstone Land's score of 1.35 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Gladstone Land pays out -127.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Farmland Partners pays out 19.7% 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 2 consecutive years. Gladstone Land is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Farmland Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmland Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 127.59% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 10.69%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 14.18% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Land currently has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 63.66%. Given Gladstone Land's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Gladstone Land is more favorable than Farmland Partners.
Summary
Farmland Partners beats Gladstone Land on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LAND) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff