FPI vs. PKST, NYMT, GMRE, UHT, OLP, LAND, DHC, WSR, ORC, and IVR
Should you be buying Farmland Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmland Partners include Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), One Liberty Properties (OLP), Gladstone Land (LAND), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Whitestone REIT (WSR), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Farmland Partners (NYSE:FPI) and Peakstone Realty Trust (NYSE:PKST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Farmland Partners presently has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.93%. Peakstone Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.78%. Given Peakstone Realty Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Peakstone Realty Trust is more favorable than Farmland Partners.
Farmland Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Peakstone Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Farmland Partners pays out 47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peakstone Realty Trust pays out -5.8% 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. Peakstone Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Farmland Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Peakstone Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Farmland Partners and 1 mentions for Peakstone Realty Trust. Farmland Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Peakstone Realty Trust's score of -1.19 indicating that Farmland Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Farmland Partners has a net margin of 53.91% compared to Peakstone Realty Trust's net margin of -224.52%. Farmland Partners' return on equity of 5.78% beat Peakstone Realty Trust's return on equity.
58.0% of Farmland Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Farmland Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Peakstone Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Farmland Partners received 257 more outperform votes than Peakstone Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.11% of users gave Farmland Partners an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Peakstone Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Farmland Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Peakstone Realty Trust. Peakstone Realty 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 Peakstone Realty Trust on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FPI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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