HHC vs. FOR, BRX, FR, RYN, CUZ, DBRG, DEI, COMP, REAX, and AOMR
Should you be buying Howard Hughes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howard Hughes include Forestar Group (FOR), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Rayonier (RYN), Cousins Properties (CUZ), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Compass (COMP), Real Brokerage (REAX), and Angel Oak Mortgage REIT (AOMR).
Forestar Group (NYSE:FOR) and Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Howard Hughes received 180 more outperform votes than Forestar Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.55% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote while only 63.10% of users gave Forestar Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Forestar Group had 1 more articles in the media than Howard Hughes. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Forestar Group and 0 mentions for Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes' average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Forestar Group's score of 0.56 indicating that Forestar Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Forestar Group currently has a consensus price target of $37.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.98%. Howard Hughes has a consensus price target of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.13%. Given Forestar Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Howard Hughes is more favorable than Forestar Group.
Howard Hughes has higher revenue and earnings than Forestar Group. Forestar Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howard Hughes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Forestar Group has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
35.5% of Forestar Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Forestar Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forestar Group has a net margin of 12.99% compared to Forestar Group's net margin of 7.72%. Howard Hughes' return on equity of 14.59% beat Forestar Group's return on equity.
Summary
Howard Hughes beats Forestar Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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