ORC vs. LAND, CLDT, UHT, OLP, CTO, PKST, ACRE, FPI, NLOP, and GMRE
Should you be buying Orchid Island Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orchid Island Capital include Gladstone Land (LAND), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Farmland Partners (FPI), Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP), and Global Medical REIT (GMRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Orchid Island Capital (NYSE:ORC) 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 community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Gladstone Land has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orchid Island Capital. Gladstone Land is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orchid Island Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Orchid Island Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Gladstone Land's return on equity of 1.99% beat Orchid Island Capital's return on equity.
Orchid Island Capital has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Land has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
32.7% of Orchid Island Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Orchid Island Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Land received 64 more outperform votes than Orchid Island Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.59% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Orchid Island Capital an outperform vote.
Orchid Island Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.5%. Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Orchid Island Capital pays out -271.7% 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. Orchid Island Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Orchid Island Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Gladstone Land. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Orchid Island Capital and 2 mentions for Gladstone Land. Orchid Island Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Gladstone Land's score of 0.11 indicating that Orchid Island Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Orchid Island Capital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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