LAND vs. ORC, IVR, OLP, UHT, CLDT, PKST, FPI, CTO, NYMT, and GMRE
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Farmland Partners (FPI), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), 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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Gladstone Land received 66 more outperform votes than Orchid Island Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.71% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Orchid Island Capital an outperform vote.
32.7% of Orchid Island Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Orchid Island Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are owned 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.
Orchid Island Capital has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% 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.
Gladstone Land has a net margin of 29.49% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 0.00%. Orchid Island Capital's return on equity of 3.63% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 2 more articles in the media than Orchid Island Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gladstone Land and 3 mentions for Orchid Island Capital. Gladstone Land's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Orchid Island Capital's score of -0.11 indicating that Orchid Island Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Orchid Island Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.6%. Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Orchid Island Capital pays out -271.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Land pays out 933.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Land has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Orchid Island Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Gladstone Land has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.14%. Given Orchid Island Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gladstone Land is more favorable than Orchid Island Capital.
Gladstone Land has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orchid Island Capital. Orchid Island Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gladstone Land beats Orchid Island Capital on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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