FPI vs. GMRE, PKST, WSR, CLDT, UHT, OLP, TRTX, LAND, DHC, and ORC
Should you be buying Farmland Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmland Partners include Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Gladstone Land (LAND), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), and Orchid Island Capital (ORC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Global Medical REIT (NYSE:GMRE) and Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Global Medical REIT received 23 more outperform votes than Farmland Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.49% of users gave Global Medical REIT an outperform vote while only 56.11% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote.
57.5% of Global Medical REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Global Medical REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 53.80% compared to Farmland Partners' net margin of 12.55%. Global Medical REIT's return on equity of 5.70% beat Farmland Partners' return on equity.
Global Medical REIT has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Medical REIT presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 40.24%. Farmland Partners has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.82%. Given Farmland Partners' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Global Medical REIT is more favorable than Farmland Partners.
In the previous week, Global Medical REIT had 2 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Global Medical REIT and 1 mentions for Farmland Partners. Global Medical REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Farmland Partners' score of -0.48 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Medical REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Global Medical REIT pays out 365.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Farmland Partners pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Farmland Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Global Medical REIT. Farmland Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Medical REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Farmland Partners beats Global Medical REIT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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