GOOD vs. LXP, AAT, WSR, OLP, GYRO, VNO, CUZ, STHO, WD, and AKR
Should you be buying Gladstone Commercial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Commercial include LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), American Assets Trust (AAT), Whitestone REIT (WSR), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gyrodyne (GYRO), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Star (STHO), Walker & Dunlop (WD), and Acadia Realty Trust (AKR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Commercial vs.
Gladstone Commercial (NASDAQ:GOOD) and LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE:LXP) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Gladstone Commercial currently has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.99%. LXP Industrial Trust has a consensus target price of $11.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.61%. Given LXP Industrial Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LXP Industrial Trust is more favorable than Gladstone Commercial.
Gladstone Commercial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. LXP Industrial Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Gladstone Commercial pays out 461.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LXP Industrial Trust pays out 415.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
45.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Gladstone Commercial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of LXP Industrial Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
LXP Industrial Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Commercial. Gladstone Commercial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LXP Industrial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Commercial has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LXP Industrial Trust has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gladstone Commercial had 7 more articles in the media than LXP Industrial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Gladstone Commercial and 5 mentions for LXP Industrial Trust. LXP Industrial Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Gladstone Commercial's score of 0.21 indicating that LXP Industrial Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Commercial received 1 more outperform votes than LXP Industrial Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.06% of users gave Gladstone Commercial an outperform vote while only 50.75% of users gave LXP Industrial Trust an outperform vote.
Gladstone Commercial has a net margin of 16.09% compared to LXP Industrial Trust's net margin of 12.40%. Gladstone Commercial's return on equity of 15.16% beat LXP Industrial Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Gladstone Commercial beats LXP Industrial Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GOOD) was last updated on 3/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff