LAND vs. CLDT, UHT, ORC, OLP, PKST, CTO, FPI, GMRE, ACRE, and NLOP
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Farmland Partners (FPI), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), and Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) and Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 0.85%. Chatham Lodging Trust's return on equity of 1.99% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Chatham Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Chatham Lodging Trust pays out -254.5% 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 Land has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Gladstone Land is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Gladstone Land has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging 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.
Chatham Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Land has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
88.4% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chatham Lodging Trust received 30 more outperform votes than Gladstone Land when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.59% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 61.43% of users gave Chatham Lodging Trust an outperform vote.
Chatham Lodging Trust currently has a consensus target price of $13.33, indicating a potential upside of 43.37%. Given Gladstone Land's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chatham Lodging Trust is more favorable than Gladstone Land.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 1 more articles in the media than Chatham Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gladstone Land and 0 mentions for Chatham Lodging Trust. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Chatham Lodging Trust's score of 0.12 indicating that Chatham Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Chatham Lodging Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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