JOE vs. BXMT, VIRT, ABCB, TCN, BRP, SLG, VCTR, SFBS, GRP.U, and CTRE
Should you be buying St. Joe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. Joe include Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Tricon Residential (TCN), BRP Group (BRP), SL Green Realty (SLG), Victory Capital (VCTR), ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), and CareTrust REIT (CTRE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has higher revenue and earnings than St. Joe. St. Joe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. Joe has a net margin of 20.10% compared to Blackstone Mortgage Trust's net margin of 0.24%. St. Joe's return on equity of 11.69% beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a consensus price target of $19.93, suggesting a potential upside of 11.27%. Given Blackstone Mortgage Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Blackstone Mortgage Trust is more favorable than St. Joe.
86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. St. Joe pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays out 8,266.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 34 more articles in the media than Blackstone Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for St. Joe and 18 mentions for Blackstone Mortgage Trust. Blackstone Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat St. Joe's score of 0.09 indicating that Blackstone Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust received 241 more outperform votes than St. Joe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Blackstone Mortgage Trust an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote.
Summary
Blackstone Mortgage Trust beats St. Joe on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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