NATL vs. GNL, HG, OCSL, NTB, BANR, ARI, ROIC, LKFN, EXPI, and ESRT
Should you be buying National Interstate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Interstate include Global Net Lease (GNL), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Banner (BANR), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), eXp World (EXPI), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Global Net Lease (NYSE:GNL) and National Interstate (NASDAQ:NATL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Global Net Lease currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 73.54%. National Interstate has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.46%. Given National Interstate's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Global Net Lease is more favorable than National Interstate.
Global Net Lease received 78 more outperform votes than National Interstate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.28% of users gave National Interstate an outperform vote while only 52.91% of users gave Global Net Lease an outperform vote.
National Interstate has higher revenue and earnings than Global Net Lease.
61.2% of Global Net Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of National Interstate shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Global Net Lease shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of National Interstate shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Net Lease had 5 more articles in the media than National Interstate. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Global Net Lease and 0 mentions for National Interstate. National Interstate's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Global Net Lease'saverage media sentiment score.
National Interstate has a net margin of 0.00% compared to National Interstate's net margin of -41.14%. Global Net Lease's return on equity of 0.00% beat National Interstate's return on equity.
Summary
National Interstate beats Global Net Lease on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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