JOE vs. ALEX, TRC, IRS, STRS, AXR, VINO, UDR, BAP, KIM, and HST
Should you be buying St. Joe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. Joe include Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX), Tejon Ranch (TRC), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Stratus Properties (STRS), AMREP (AXR), Gaucho Group (VINO), UDR (UDR), Credicorp (BAP), Kimco Realty (KIM), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST).
Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE:ALEX) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Alexander & Baldwin presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.87%. Given St. Joe's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Alexander & Baldwin is more favorable than St. Joe.
Alexander & Baldwin received 133 more outperform votes than St. Joe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave Alexander & Baldwin an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 4 more articles in the media than Alexander & Baldwin. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for St. Joe and 1 mentions for Alexander & Baldwin. St. Joe's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Alexander & Baldwin's score of 1.39 indicating that Alexander & Baldwin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alexander & Baldwin has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alexander & Baldwin has a net margin of 20.25% compared to Alexander & Baldwin's net margin of 20.10%. Alexander & Baldwin's return on equity of 11.69% beat St. Joe's return on equity.
91.3% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alexander & Baldwin pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Alexander & Baldwin pays out 145.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. St. Joe pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alexander & Baldwin has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and St. Joe has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
St. Joe has higher revenue and earnings than Alexander & Baldwin. Alexander & Baldwin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than St. Joe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
St. Joe beats Alexander & Baldwin on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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