Farmland Partners (FPI) Competitors

Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) and SSR Mining (NASDAQ:SSRM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in FPI or SSRM?

58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of SSR Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Farmland Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of SSR Mining shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, FPI or SSRM?

Farmland Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SSR Mining. SSR Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmland Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Farmland Partners	$58.23M	7.93	$30.91M	$1.00	10.04
SSR Mining	$995.62M	2.16	-$98.01M	-$1.29	-8.26

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FPI or SSRM?

SSR Mining received 136 more outperform votes than Farmland Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.27% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote while only 52.47% of users gave SSR Mining an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Farmland Partners	Outperform Votes 257 55.27%	Underperform Votes 208 44.73%
SSR Mining	Outperform Votes 393 52.47%	Underperform Votes 356 47.53%

Does the media refer more to FPI or SSRM?

In the previous week, SSR Mining had 11 more articles in the media than Farmland Partners. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for SSR Mining and 1 mentions for Farmland Partners. Farmland Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat SSR Mining's score of 0.53 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Farmland Partners	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
SSR Mining	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, FPI or SSRM?

Farmland Partners has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSR Mining has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend FPI or SSRM?

SSR Mining has a consensus target price of $10.03, suggesting a potential downside of 5.79%. Given SSR Mining's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SSR Mining is more favorable than Farmland Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Farmland Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
SSR Mining	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25

Is FPI or SSRM a better dividend stock?

Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. SSR Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Farmland Partners pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SSR Mining pays out -10.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Is FPI or SSRM more profitable?

Farmland Partners has a net margin of 102.89% compared to SSR Mining's net margin of -26.24%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 11.47% beat SSR Mining's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Farmland Partners	102.89%	11.47%	5.82%
SSR Mining	-26.24%	1.46%	1.11%

Summary

Farmland Partners beats SSR Mining on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.