JOE vs. HHH, SBRA, PK, WD, ASB, ABCB, AX, TCN, MPW, and SFBS
Should you be buying St. Joe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. Joe include Howard Hughes (HHH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Park Hotels & Resorts (PK), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Associated Banc (ASB), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Axos Financial (AX), Tricon Residential (TCN), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and Howard Hughes (NYSE:HHH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howard Hughes has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Howard Hughes shares are held by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Howard Hughes shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
St. Joe has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes 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 25 more articles in the media than Howard Hughes. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for St. Joe and 4 mentions for Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat St. Joe's score of 0.27 indicating that Howard Hughes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
St. Joe received 196 more outperform votes than Howard Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Howard Hughes an outperform vote.
St. Joe has a net margin of 20.10% compared to Howard Hughes' net margin of -58.21%. St. Joe's return on equity of 11.69% beat Howard Hughes' return on equity.
Howard Hughes has a consensus target price of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.60%. Given Howard Hughes' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Howard Hughes is more favorable than St. Joe.
Summary
St. Joe beats Howard Hughes on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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