Uniti Group (NASDAQ:UNIT) & Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LANDP) Head to Head Survey

Gladstone Land (NASDAQ:LANDP) and Uniti Group (NASDAQ:UNIT) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Gladstone Land and Uniti Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gladstone Land	0	0	0	0	N/A
Uniti Group	1	1	1	0	2.00

Uniti Group has a consensus price target of $6.33, suggesting a potential upside of 42.64%. Given Uniti Group’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Uniti Group is more favorable than Gladstone Land.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

87.5% of Uniti Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Uniti Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Gladstone Land and Uniti Group’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gladstone Land	$90.40 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Uniti Group	$1.15 billion	0.93	-$81.71 million	($0.18)	-24.67

Gladstone Land has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Uniti Group.

Dividends

Gladstone Land pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Uniti Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. Uniti Group pays out -333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Land has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Profitability

This table compares Gladstone Land and Uniti Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gladstone Land	N/A	N/A	N/A
Uniti Group	-3.83%	N/A	-0.88%

Summary

Uniti Group beats Gladstone Land on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gladstone Land

Founded in 1997, Gladstone Land is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that acquires and owns farmland and farm-related properties located in major agricultural markets in the U.S. and leases its properties to unrelated third-party farmers. The Company, which reports the aggregate fair value of its farmland holdings on a quarterly basis, currently owns 169 farms, comprised of approximately 116,000 acres in 15 different states and over 45,000 acre-feet of banked water in California, valued at a total of approximately $1.6 billion. Gladstone Land's farms are predominantly located in regions where its tenants are able to grow fresh produce annual row crops, such as berries and vegetables, which are generally planted and harvested annually. The Company also owns farms growing permanent crops, such as almonds, apples, cherries, figs, lemons, olives, pistachios, and other orchards, as well as blueberry groves and vineyards, which are generally planted every 20-plus years and harvested annually. Approximately 40% of the Company's fresh produce acreage is either organic or in transition to become organic, and over 10% of its permanent crop acreage falls into this category. The Company may also acquire property related to farming, such as cooling facilities, processing buildings, packaging facilities, and distribution centers. Gladstone Land pays monthly distributions to its stockholders and has paid 129 consecutive monthly cash distributions on its common stock since its initial public offering in January 2013. The Company has increased its common distributions 32 times over the prior 35 quarters, and the current per-share distribution on its common stock is $0.0464 per month, or $0.5568 per year.

About Uniti Group

Uniti, an internally managed real estate investment trust, is engaged in the acquisition and construction of mission critical communications infrastructure, and is a leading provider of fiber and other wireless solutions for the communications industry. As of December 31, 2023, Uniti owns approximately 140,000 fiber route miles, 8.5 million fiber strand miles, and other communications real estate throughout the United States.