GOOD vs. STHO, CPF, HBNC, GMRE, GAMI, PDT, SRG, CCB, PSBD, and MSBI
Should you be buying Gladstone Commercial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Commercial include Star (STHO), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Coastal Financial (CCB), Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD), and Midland States Bancorp (MSBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) and Star (NASDAQ:STHO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Gladstone Commercial has a net margin of 2.82% compared to Star's net margin of -159.60%. Gladstone Commercial's return on equity of 2.36% beat Star's return on equity.
45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Star shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Star shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Commercial has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Commercial has higher revenue and earnings than Star. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Star, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Commercial presently has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 12.05%. Given Gladstone Commercial's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Gladstone Commercial is more favorable than Star.
Gladstone Commercial received 267 more outperform votes than Star when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Star had 62 more articles in the media than Gladstone Commercial. MarketBeat recorded 70 mentions for Star and 8 mentions for Gladstone Commercial. Gladstone Commercial's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Star's score of -0.10 indicating that Gladstone Commercial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats Star on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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