JOE vs. HHH, SBRA, PK, WD, ASB, ABCB, AX, TCN, MPW, and SFBS
Should you be buying St. Joe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. Joe include Howard Hughes (HHH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Associated Banc (ASB), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Axos Financial (AX), Tricon Residential (TCN), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHH) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Howard Hughes currently has a consensus target price of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.60%. Given St. Joe's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Howard Hughes is more favorable than St. Joe.
St. Joe has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than St. Joe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. Joe received 196 more outperform votes than Howard Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote.
St. Joe has a net margin of 20.10% compared to St. Joe's net margin of -58.21%. Howard Hughes' return on equity of 11.69% beat St. Joe's return on equity.
93.8% of Howard Hughes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of St. Joe shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 25 more articles in the media than Howard Hughes. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for St. Joe and 4 mentions for Howard Hughes. St. Joe's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Howard Hughes' score of 0.26 indicating that Howard Hughes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
St. Joe beats Howard Hughes on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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