STRS vs. AXR, PTMN, EMF, CALB, CPSS, ONL, MFIN, MBCN, CIO, and BHR
Should you be buying Stratus Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stratus Properties include AMREP (AXR), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), California BanCorp (CALB), Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), City Office REIT (CIO), and Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AMREP (NYSE:AXR) and Stratus Properties (NASDAQ:STRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
AMREP received 39 more outperform votes than Stratus Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.10% of users gave AMREP an outperform vote while only 52.87% of users gave Stratus Properties an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AMREP had 7 more articles in the media than Stratus Properties. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for AMREP and 0 mentions for Stratus Properties. AMREP's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Stratus Properties' score of 0.45 indicating that Stratus Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AMREP has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stratus Properties has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AMREP has higher revenue and earnings than Stratus Properties. Stratus Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMREP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.9% of AMREP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Stratus Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.0% of AMREP shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Stratus Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AMREP has a net margin of 6.43% compared to AMREP's net margin of -85.74%. Stratus Properties' return on equity of 2.54% beat AMREP's return on equity.
Summary
AMREP beats Stratus Properties on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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