LFT vs. FPI, OLP, LAND, IVR, ORC, PKST, CLDT, CTO, ACRE, and NLOP
Should you be buying Lument Finance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lument Finance Trust include Farmland Partners (FPI), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), and Net Lease Office Properties (NLOP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) and Lument Finance Trust (NYSE:LFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 53.91% compared to Farmland Partners' net margin of 16.43%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 12.59% beat Lument Finance Trust's return on equity.
Farmland Partners currently has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.76%. Lument Finance Trust has a consensus price target of $2.58, indicating a potential upside of 3.33%. Given Lument Finance Trust's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Farmland Partners is more favorable than Lument Finance Trust.
Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lument Finance Trust has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Farmland Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Lument Finance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Farmland Partners received 142 more outperform votes than Lument Finance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.25% of users gave Lument Finance Trust an outperform vote while only 56.11% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote.
Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Lument Finance Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Farmland Partners pays out 47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lument Finance Trust pays out 87.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Farmland Partners has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Lument Finance Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Farmland Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Lument Finance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Farmland Partners and 0 mentions for Lument Finance Trust. Lument Finance Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Farmland Partners' score of 1.38 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Farmland Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lument Finance Trust. Lument Finance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmland Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Farmland Partners beats Lument Finance Trust on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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