GMRE vs. FPI, PKST, UHT, DHC, TRTX, WSR, OLP, LAND, CLDT, and ORC
Should you be buying Global Medical REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Medical REIT include Farmland Partners (FPI), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 53.91% compared to Global Medical REIT's net margin of 12.55%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 5.78% beat Global Medical REIT's return on equity.
Global Medical REIT pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. 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 47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Medical REIT currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.27%. Farmland Partners has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.77%. Given Global Medical REIT's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Global Medical REIT is more favorable than Farmland Partners.
In the previous week, Global Medical REIT had 13 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Global Medical REIT and 0 mentions for Farmland Partners. Farmland Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Global Medical REIT's score of -0.48 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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.
Global Medical REIT has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Farmland Partners beats Global Medical REIT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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