HHC vs. FOR, AGNCP, AGNCO, AGNCN, AGNCM, AGNCL, BPYPP, BPYPO, BPYPN, and ESBA
Should you be buying Howard Hughes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howard Hughes include Forestar Group (FOR), AGNC Investment (AGNCP), AGNC Investment (AGNCO), AGNC Investment (AGNCN), AGNC Investment (AGNCM), AGNC Investment (AGNCL), Brookfield Property Partners (BPYPP), Brookfield Property Partners (BPYPO), Brookfield Property Partners (BPYPN), and Empire State Realty OP (ESBA).
Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHC) and Forestar Group (NYSE:FOR) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
95.3% of Howard Hughes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.5% of Forestar Group shares are held by institutional investors. 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Forestar Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Howard Hughes has higher revenue and earnings than Forestar Group. Forestar Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howard Hughes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forestar Group has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Howard Hughes received 178 more outperform votes than Forestar Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.79% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote while only 63.13% of users gave Forestar Group an outperform vote.
Forestar Group has a consensus price target of $38.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.98%. Given Forestar Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Forestar Group is more favorable than Howard Hughes.
Forestar Group has a net margin of 12.89% compared to Howard Hughes' net margin of 7.72%. Forestar Group's return on equity of 13.48% beat Howard Hughes' return on equity.
In the previous week, Forestar Group had 7 more articles in the media than Howard Hughes. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Forestar Group and 1 mentions for Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Forestar Group's score of 0.13 indicating that Howard Hughes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Howard Hughes beats Forestar Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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