ALEX vs. JOE, TRC, COLD, KRG, CUZ, IRT, PECO, SBRA, SLG, and EPR
Should you be buying Alexander & Baldwin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexander & Baldwin include St. Joe (JOE), Tejon Ranch (TRC), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), Cousins Properties (CUZ), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), SL Green Realty (SLG), and EPR Properties (EPR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Alexander & Baldwin vs.
Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE:ALEX) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
Alexander & Baldwin has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alexander & Baldwin currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.88%. Given Alexander & Baldwin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alexander & Baldwin is more favorable than St. Joe.
91.3% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alexander & Baldwin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of St. Joe 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.
Alexander & Baldwin pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alexander & Baldwin pays out 105.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. St. Joe pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alexander & Baldwin has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and St. Joe has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Alexander & Baldwin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 17 more articles in the media than Alexander & Baldwin. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for St. Joe and 6 mentions for Alexander & Baldwin. Alexander & Baldwin's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat St. Joe's score of 0.30 indicating that Alexander & Baldwin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Alexander & Baldwin has a net margin of 19.64% compared to St. Joe's net margin of 17.76%. St. Joe's return on equity of 9.58% beat Alexander & Baldwin's return on equity.
Alexander & Baldwin received 142 more outperform votes than St. Joe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.32% of users gave Alexander & Baldwin an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote.
Summary
Alexander & Baldwin beats St. Joe on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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