MAYS vs. HOUS, ARL, AOMR, SRG, RITR, AFCG, RMAX, MRCC, AXR, and STRS
Should you be buying J.W. Mays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J.W. Mays include Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS), American Realty Investors (ARL), Angel Oak Mortgage REIT (AOMR), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Reitar Logtech (RITR), AFC Gamma (AFCG), RE/MAX (RMAX), Monroe Capital (MRCC), AMREP (AXR), and Stratus Properties (STRS). These companies are all part of the "real estate" industry.
J.W. Mays vs.
Anywhere Real Estate (NYSE:HOUS) and J.W. Mays (NASDAQ:MAYS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
97.6% of Anywhere Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.2% of J.W. Mays shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Anywhere Real Estate shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.2% of J.W. Mays shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Anywhere Real Estate has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J.W. Mays has a beta of -0.05, meaning that its stock price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Anywhere Real Estate presently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 62.63%. Given Anywhere Real Estate's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Anywhere Real Estate is more favorable than J.W. Mays.
J.W. Mays received 73 more outperform votes than Anywhere Real Estate when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.64% of users gave J.W. Mays an outperform vote while only 4.35% of users gave Anywhere Real Estate an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Anywhere Real Estate had 4 more articles in the media than J.W. Mays. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Anywhere Real Estate and 1 mentions for J.W. Mays. J.W. Mays' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Anywhere Real Estate's score of 0.24 indicating that J.W. Mays is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J.W. Mays has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Anywhere Real Estate. J.W. Mays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anywhere Real Estate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
J.W. Mays has a net margin of -0.86% compared to Anywhere Real Estate's net margin of -3.06%. J.W. Mays' return on equity of -0.35% beat Anywhere Real Estate's return on equity.
Summary
J.W. Mays beats Anywhere Real Estate on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MAYS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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