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How to buy Gaming and Leisure Properties stock | $42.47
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Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc is a reit-specialty business based in the US. Gaming and Leisure Properties shares (GLPI) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Gaming and Leisure Properties employs 648 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.1 billion.
How to buy shares in Gaming and Leisure Properties
- Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Gaming and Leisure Properties. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GLPI. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Gaming and Leisure Properties reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$42.47, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Gaming and Leisure Properties, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Gaming and Leisure Properties. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
What's in this guide?
- GLPI shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is GLPI stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short GLPI shares?
- Is GLPI suitable for ethical investing?
- Are GLPI shares over-valued?
- Gaming and Leisure Properties's financials
- How volatile are GLPI shares?
- Does Gaming and Leisure Properties pay a dividend?
- Other common questions
Gaming and Leisure Properties share price
Use our graph to track the performance of GLPI stocks over time.Gaming and Leisure Properties shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-12-27.
| Latest market close | USD$42.47 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$12.593 - USD$48.5054 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$42.042 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$38.0776 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$46.3 |
| PE ratio | 20.7129 |
| Dividend yield | USD$0.48 (1.12%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$2.076 |
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Is it a good time to buy Gaming and Leisure Properties stock?
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Gaming and Leisure Properties price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $42.47 from 2020-12-18
| 1 week (2021-01-14) | 7.82% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-12-24) | -1.23% |
| 3 months (2020-10-22) | 8.29% |
| 6 months (2020-07-22) | 20.62% |
| 1 year (2020-01-22) | -7.57% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2019-01-22) | 19.50% |
| 3 years (2018-01-22) | 16.68% |
| 5 years (2016-01-22) | 66.55% |
Is Gaming and Leisure Properties under- or over-valued?
Valuing Gaming and Leisure Properties stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Gaming and Leisure Properties's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's P/E ratio
Gaming and Leisure Properties's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, Gaming and Leisure Properties shares trade at around 21x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's PEG ratio
Gaming and Leisure Properties's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 8.08. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Gaming and Leisure Properties's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's EBITDA
Gaming and Leisure Properties's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$996.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Gaming and Leisure Properties's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Gaming and Leisure Properties financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$1.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 66.2% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.51% |
| Return on equity TTM | 20.88% |
| Profit margin | 39.46% |
| Book value | $10.01 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$9.9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Gaming and Leisure Properties shares
There are currently 3.4 million Gaming and Leisure Properties shares held short by investors – that's known as Gaming and Leisure Properties's "short interest". This figure is 9.2% up from 3.1 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Gaming and Leisure Properties shares can be evaluated.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Gaming and Leisure Properties's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Gaming and Leisure Properties shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Gaming and Leisure Properties shares traded daily (recently around 1.2 million). Gaming and Leisure Properties's SIR currently stands at 2.87. In other words for every 100,000 Gaming and Leisure Properties shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2870 shares are currently held short.
However Gaming and Leisure Properties's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Gaming and Leisure Properties shares, or, against the total number of tradable Gaming and Leisure Properties shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Gaming and Leisure Properties's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Gaming and Leisure Properties shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0179% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Gaming and Leisure Properties shares, roughly 18 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 Gaming and Leisure Properties.
Find out more about how you can short Gaming and Leisure Properties stock.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's environmental, social and governance track record
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Gaming and Leisure Properties.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's total ESG risk score
Total ESG risk: 15.8
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Gaming and Leisure Properties's overall score of 15.8 (as at 01/01/2019) is excellent – landing it in it in the 18th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Gaming and Leisure Properties is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Gaming and Leisure Properties's environmental score
Environmental score: 5.61/100
Gaming and Leisure Properties's social score
Social score: 4.06/100
Gaming and Leisure Properties's governance score
Governance score: 5.62/100
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 15.8 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 18.26 |
| Environmental score | 5.61 |
| Social score | 4.06 |
| Governance score | 5.62 |
Gaming and Leisure Properties share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 77.69% of net profits
Recently Gaming and Leisure Properties has paid out, on average, around 77.69% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.12% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Gaming and Leisure Properties shareholders could enjoy a 1.12% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Gaming and Leisure Properties's case, that would currently equate to about $0.48 per share.
Gaming and Leisure Properties'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.
Gaming and Leisure Properties's most recent dividend payout was on 24 December 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Gaming and Leisure Properties share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Gaming and Leisure Properties's shares have ranged in value from as little as $12.593 up to $48.5054. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Gaming and Leisure Properties's is 1.0556. This would suggest that Gaming and Leisure Properties's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Gaming and Leisure Properties overview
GLPI is engaged in the business of acquiring, financing, and owning real estate property to be leased to gaming operators in triple-net lease arrangements, pursuant to which the tenant is responsible for all facility maintenance, insurance required in connection with the leased properties and the business conducted on the leased properties, taxes levied on or with respect to the leased properties and all utilities and other services necessary or appropriate for the leased properties and the business conducted on the leased properties.
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