FRPH vs. TRC, FPH, INDT, AHH, EFC, MRTN, HTZ, HTLD, ODFL, and JBHT
Should you be buying FRP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FRP include Tejon Ranch (TRC), Five Point (FPH), INDUS Realty Trust (INDT), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Ellington Financial (EFC), Marten Transport (MRTN), Hertz Global (HTZ), Heartland Express (HTLD), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT).
Tejon Ranch (NYSE:TRC) and FRP (NASDAQ:FRPH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
Tejon Ranch has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FRP has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FRP received 128 more outperform votes than Tejon Ranch when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.05% of users gave FRP an outperform vote while only 59.00% of users gave Tejon Ranch an outperform vote.
FRP has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tejon Ranch. FRP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tejon Ranch, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FRP had 5 more articles in the media than Tejon Ranch. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FRP and 1 mentions for Tejon Ranch. Tejon Ranch's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat FRP's score of 0.00 indicating that FRP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.6% of Tejon Ranch shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.4% of FRP shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Tejon Ranch shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of FRP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
FRP has a net margin of 14.54% compared to FRP's net margin of 1.45%. Tejon Ranch's return on equity of 1.35% beat FRP's return on equity.
Summary
FRP beats Tejon Ranch on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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