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.
Stratus Properties (NASDAQ:STRS) and AMREP (NYSE:AXR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Stratus Properties has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMREP has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AMREP has a net margin of 6.43% compared to AMREP's net margin of -85.74%. Stratus Properties' return on equity of 2.54% beat AMREP's return on equity.
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 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.
61.6% of Stratus Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of AMREP shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Stratus Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.0% of AMREP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, AMREP had 15 more articles in the media than Stratus Properties. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for AMREP and 1 mentions for Stratus Properties. Stratus Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat AMREP's score of 0.00 indicating that AMREP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AMREP beats Stratus Properties on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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