How to buy Farmland Partners stock | $11.78

Farmland Partners Inc is a reit-specialty business based in the US. Farmland Partners shares (FPI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Farmland Partners employs 11 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Farmland Partners stock price (NYSE: FPI)

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Farmland Partners shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-10-16.

Latest market close	$11.78
52-week range	$6.15 - $14.66
50-day moving average	$12.25
200-day moving average	$12.51
Wall St. target price	$13.90
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	$0.2 (1.69%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$-0.21

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Farmland Partners price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $11.78 from 2021-10-15

1 week (2021-10-08)	5.65%
1 month (2021-09-17)	-5.53%
3 months (2021-07-16)	-4.77%
6 months (2021-04-16)	-11.83%

1 year (2020-10-16)	77.68%
2 years (2019-10-17)	75.82%
3 years (2018-10-17)	82.07%
5 years (2016-10-17)	12.30%

Is Farmland Partners under- or over-valued?

Valuing Farmland Partners stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Farmland Partners's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Farmland Partners's EBITDA

Farmland Partners's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $24.6 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Farmland Partners's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Farmland Partners financials

Revenue TTM	$49.5 million
Operating margin TTM	33.94%
Gross profit TTM	$40 million
Return on assets TTM	0.96%
Return on equity TTM	1.15%
Profit margin	12.5%
Book value	$9.51
Market capitalisation	$386.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Farmland Partners shares

There are currently 500,320 Farmland Partners shares held short by investors – that's known as Farmland Partners's "short interest". This figure is 10.8% up from 451,568 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Farmland Partners shares can be evaluated.

Farmland Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Farmland Partners's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Farmland Partners shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Farmland Partners shares traded daily (recently around 208466.66666667). Farmland Partners's SIR currently stands at 2.4. In other words for every 100,000 Farmland Partners shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2400 shares are currently held short.

However Farmland Partners's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Farmland Partners shares, or, against the total number of tradable Farmland Partners shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Farmland Partners's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Farmland Partners shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0187% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Farmland Partners shares, roughly 19 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Farmland Partners.

Find out more about how you can short Farmland Partners stock.

Farmland Partners share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 71% of net profits

Recently Farmland Partners has paid out, on average, around 71% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.69% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Farmland Partners shareholders could enjoy a 1.69% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Farmland Partners's case, that would currently equate to about $0.2 per share.

Farmland Partners's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Farmland Partners's most recent dividend payout was on 14 October 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 September 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Farmland Partners's shares ever split?

Farmland Partners's shares were split on a 1:4 basis on 16 October 2014. So if you had owned 4 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Farmland Partners shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 300% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Farmland Partners shares which in turn could have impacted Farmland Partners's share price.

Farmland Partners share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Farmland Partners's shares have ranged in value from as little as $6.1546 up to $14.6621. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Farmland Partners's is 0.8852. This would suggest that Farmland Partners's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Farmland Partners overview

Farmland Partners Inc. is an internally managed real estate company that owns and seeks to acquire high-quality North American farmland and makes loans to farmers secured by farm real estate. As of the date of this release, the Company owns approximately 155,000 acres in 16 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota and Virginia. We have approximately 26 crop types and over 100 tenants. The Company elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for U. S. federal income tax purposes, commencing with the taxable year ended December 31, 2014.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Farmland Partners is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 17.65% of Farmland Partners shares are held by insiders and 41.748% by institutions. How many people work for Farmland Partners?
Latest data suggests 11 work at Farmland Partners. When does the fiscal year end for Farmland Partners?
Farmland Partners's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Farmland Partners based?
Farmland Partners's address is: 4600 South Syracuse Street, Denver, CO, United States, 80237 What is Farmland Partners's ISIN number?
Farmland Partners's international securities identification number is: US31154R1095 What is Farmland Partners's CUSIP number?
Farmland Partners's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 31154R109