GOOD vs. LMRK, AAT, WSR, OLP, GYRO, SAFE, VNO, CUZ, LXP, and STHO
Should you be buying Gladstone Commercial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Commercial include Landmark Infrastructure Partners (LMRK), American Assets Trust (AAT), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Safehold (SAFE), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Cousins Properties (CUZ), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), and Star (STHO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners (NASDAQ:LMRK) and Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Commercial has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gladstone Commercial had 2 more articles in the media than Landmark Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gladstone Commercial and 0 mentions for Landmark Infrastructure Partners. Landmark Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Gladstone Commercial's score of 0.00 indicating that Gladstone Commercial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners has a net margin of 28.52% compared to Landmark Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 3.60%. Gladstone Commercial's return on equity of 9.18% beat Landmark Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.
51.3% of Landmark Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Landmark Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gladstone Commercial. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Infrastructure Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Landmark Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Gladstone Commercial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Landmark Infrastructure Partners pays out 285.7% 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 Commercial pays out -631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Commercial has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Gladstone Commercial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Gladstone Commercial has a consensus target price of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.01%. Given Landmark Infrastructure Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gladstone Commercial is more favorable than Landmark Infrastructure Partners.
Gladstone Commercial received 18 more outperform votes than Landmark Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.14% of users gave Gladstone Commercial an outperform vote while only 52.19% of users gave Landmark Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats Landmark Infrastructure Partners on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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