FPH vs. FOR, GTY, KW, CMTG, EFC, AHH, LPA, HPP, FRPH, and CRESY
Should you be buying Five Point stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Point include Forestar Group (FOR), Getty Realty (GTY), Kennedy-Wilson (KW), Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), Ellington Financial (EFC), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Latam Logistic Properties (LPA), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), FRP (FRPH), and Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
Five Point (NYSE:FPH) and Forestar Group (NYSE:FOR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Forestar Group has higher revenue and earnings than Five Point. Five Point is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forestar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Five Point has a net margin of 28.83% compared to Forestar Group's net margin of 12.99%. Forestar Group's return on equity of 14.59% beat Five Point's return on equity.
38.1% of Five Point shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.5% of Forestar Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Five Point shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Forestar Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forestar Group has a consensus price target of $37.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.71%. Given Forestar Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Forestar Group is more favorable than Five Point.
Five Point has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forestar Group has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Forestar Group's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Five Point's score of 0.00 indicating that Forestar Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Forestar Group received 51 more outperform votes than Five Point when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Five Point an outperform vote while only 63.10% of users gave Forestar Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Forestar Group beats Five Point on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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