LAND vs. OLP, ORC, HT, ACRE, WSR, AHR, DRH, CXW, AKR, and GNL
Should you be buying Gladstone Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Land include One Liberty Properties (OLP), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Hersha Hospitality Trust (HT), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Whitestone REIT (WSR), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), and Global Net Lease (GNL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LAND) and One Liberty Properties (NYSE:OLP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Gladstone Land received 155 more outperform votes than One Liberty Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.71% of users gave Gladstone Land an outperform vote while only 59.82% of users gave One Liberty Properties an outperform vote.
53.6% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.2% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gladstone Land shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.4% of One Liberty Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
One Liberty Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Land. One Liberty Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
One Liberty Properties has a net margin of 32.51% compared to Gladstone Land's net margin of 29.49%. One Liberty Properties' return on equity of 9.56% beat Gladstone Land's return on equity.
Gladstone Land has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, One Liberty Properties has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Land currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.52%. One Liberty Properties has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.52%. Given Gladstone Land's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gladstone Land is more favorable than One Liberty Properties.
In the previous week, Gladstone Land had 1 more articles in the media than One Liberty Properties. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gladstone Land and 1 mentions for One Liberty Properties. One Liberty Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Gladstone Land's score of 0.47 indicating that One Liberty Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. One Liberty Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Gladstone Land pays out 916.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. One Liberty Properties pays out 132.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. One Liberty Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
One Liberty Properties beats Gladstone Land on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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