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).
St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE:ALEX) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
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.
St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Alexander & Baldwin pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. St. Joe pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Alexander & Baldwin has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.58%. Given Alexander & Baldwin's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alexander & Baldwin is more favorable than St. Joe.
St. Joe has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexander & Baldwin has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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. Alexander & Baldwin's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat St. Joe's score of 1.39 indicating that Alexander & Baldwin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Alexander & Baldwin has a net margin of 20.25% compared to St. Joe's net margin of 20.10%. St. Joe's return on equity of 11.69% beat Alexander & Baldwin's return on equity.
Summary
St. Joe beats Alexander & Baldwin on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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