AXR vs. STRS, OVBC, NIM, CZWI, CBFV, BTM, FNCB, PCF, CXE, and FSFG
Should you be buying AMREP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMREP include Stratus Properties (STRS), Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), CB Financial Services (CBFV), Bitcoin Depot (BTM), FNCB Bancorp (FNCB), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), and First Savings Financial Group (FSFG). 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 companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
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.
AMREP has a net margin of 6.43% compared to Stratus Properties' net margin of -85.74%. AMREP's return on equity of 2.54% beat Stratus Properties' return on equity.
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 0.42 beat Stratus Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that AMREP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AMREP has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stratus Properties has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AMREP beats Stratus Properties on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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