GLAD vs. LAND, FMNB, PNNT, GBLI, FPH, DGICA, HAFC, OLP, MVF, and TREE
Should you be buying Gladstone Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Capital include Gladstone Land (LAND), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Five Point (FPH), Donegal Group (DGICA), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), One Liberty Properties (OLP), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), and LendingTree (TREE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) and Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
10.7% of Gladstone Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Gladstone Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Capital presently has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.56%. Given Gladstone Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gladstone Capital is more favorable than Gladstone Land.
Gladstone Land received 89 more outperform votes than Gladstone Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.59% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Gladstone Capital an outperform vote.
Gladstone Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Gladstone Capital pays out 68.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Land pays out -207.4% 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 Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gladstone Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Gladstone Land. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Gladstone Capital and 1 mentions for Gladstone Land. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Gladstone Capital's score of -0.07 indicating that Gladstone Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Capital has a net margin of 63.05% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 16.11%. Gladstone Capital's return on equity of 11.59% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Gladstone Capital has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Land has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
Gladstone Capital beats Gladstone Land on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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