Gladstone Land Co. (NASDAQ:LAND) Declares Dividend Increase – $0.05 Per Share

Gladstone Land Co. (NASDAQ:LANDGet Free Report) announced a dividend on Monday, January 20th,investing.com reports. Investors of record on Monday, January 27th will be paid a dividend of 0.0467 per share by the real estate investment trust on Friday, January 31st. This represents a yield of 5.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 24th. This is a positive change from Gladstone Land’s previous dividend of $0.04.

Gladstone Land has a dividend payout ratio of -311.1% meaning the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Equities analysts expect Gladstone Land to earn $0.52 per share next year, which means the company may not be able to cover its $0.56 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 107.7%.

Gladstone Land Stock Down 0.5 %

Shares of LAND traded down $0.05 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $10.77. 268,825 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 312,437. The firm has a market cap of $389.77 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -41.42, a P/E/G ratio of 3.33 and a beta of 1.05. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $11.29 and a 200 day simple moving average of $12.97. The company has a quick ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77. Gladstone Land has a 12-month low of $10.27 and a 12-month high of $15.36.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Alliance Global Partners downgraded Gladstone Land from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $16.00 to $14.50 in a report on Friday, November 8th.

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About Gladstone Land

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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.

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