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.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
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 St. Joe's net margin of 0.24%. Blackstone Mortgage Trust's return on equity of 11.69% beat St. Joe's return on equity.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus price target of $19.93, suggesting a potential upside of 11.27%. Given St. Joe's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blackstone Mortgage Trust is more favorable than St. Joe.
Blackstone Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. 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 pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. St. Joe has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
64.2% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Blackstone Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 33 more articles in the media than Blackstone Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for St. Joe and 18 mentions for Blackstone Mortgage Trust. St. Joe's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Blackstone Mortgage Trust's score of 0.14 indicating that Blackstone Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the 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 and St. Joe tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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