JOE vs. TCN, TFSL, PK, SLG, ABCB, HHH, CNS, VCTR, APAM, and VIRT
Should you be buying St. Joe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. Joe include Tricon Residential (TCN), TFS Financial (TFSL), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), SL Green Realty (SLG), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Howard Hughes (HHH), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), and Virtu Financial (VIRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and Tricon Residential (NYSE:TCN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tricon Residential has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
St. Joe has a net margin of 20.10% compared to Tricon Residential's net margin of 19.97%. St. Joe's return on equity of 11.69% beat Tricon Residential's return on equity.
St. Joe received 158 more outperform votes than Tricon Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave Tricon Residential an outperform vote.
Tricon Residential has higher revenue and earnings than St. Joe. Tricon Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than St. Joe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 41 more articles in the media than Tricon Residential. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for St. Joe and 2 mentions for Tricon Residential. Tricon Residential's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat St. Joe's score of -0.03 indicating that Tricon Residential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tricon Residential has a consensus target price of $10.47, indicating a potential downside of 6.94%. Given Tricon Residential's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tricon Residential is more favorable than St. Joe.
St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Tricon Residential pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. St. Joe pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tricon Residential pays out 79.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Tricon Residential shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Tricon Residential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
St. Joe beats Tricon Residential on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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