LFT vs. LAND, FPI, ORC, TINV, BRT, ILPT, PSTL, PUYI, REFI, and FRGE
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Gladstone Land (LAND), Farmland Partners (FPI), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), BRT Apartments (BRT), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), Highest Performances (PUYI), Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance (REFI), and Forge Global (FRGE). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Lument Finance Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 3 more articles in the media than Lument Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gladstone Land and 3 mentions for Lument Finance Trust. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Lument Finance Trust's score of 0.15 indicating that Lument Finance Trust 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 3.7%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Gladstone Land pays out 933.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lument Finance Trust pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lument Finance Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Lument Finance Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lument Finance Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Gladstone Land. Lument Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 29.49% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 16.43%. Gladstone Land's return on equity of 12.59% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
Gladstone Land presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.81%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus target price of $2.58, indicating a potential downside of 3.61%. Given Lument Finance Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gladstone Land is more favorable than Lument Finance Trust.
Gladstone Land received 245 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.77% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 67.25% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Lument Finance Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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