IRS vs. JOE, STRS, AXR, VINO, MAC, MCY, HTGC, ASB, WD, and AX
Should you be buying IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima include St. Joe (JOE), Stratus Properties (STRS), AMREP (AXR), Gaucho Group (VINO), Macerich (MAC), Mercury General (MCY), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Associated Banc (ASB), Walker & Dunlop (WD), and Axos Financial (AX).
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:IRS) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
St. Joe received 26 more outperform votes than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.80% of users gave St. Joe an outperform vote while only 51.20% of users gave IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote.
St. Joe has a net margin of 20.10% compared to IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's net margin of 8.94%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's return on equity of 29.02% beat St. Joe's return on equity.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $0.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays out 100.0% 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.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, St. Joe had 20 more articles in the media than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for St. Joe and 3 mentions for IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. St. Joe's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's score of -0.14 indicating that St. Joe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
45.5% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. 25.1% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of St. Joe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has higher revenue and earnings than St. Joe. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than St. Joe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
St. Joe beats IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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