St. Joe (NYSE:JOE – Get Free Report) and La Rosa (NASDAQ:LRHC – Get Free Report) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares St. Joe and La Rosa’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| St. Joe | 22.32% | 15.66% | 8.02% |
| La Rosa | -46.38% | -3,087.05% | -149.58% |
Volatility and Risk
St. Joe has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, La Rosa has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for St. Joe and La Rosa, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| St. Joe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| La Rosa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.6% of La Rosa shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of St. Joe shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of La Rosa shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares St. Joe and La Rosa”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| St. Joe | $542.95 million | 7.29 | $115.63 million | $2.12 | 33.02 |
| La Rosa | $62.27 million | 0.01 | -$30.55 million | ($3,705.40) | -0.00 |
St. Joe has higher revenue and earnings than La Rosa. La Rosa 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 La Rosa on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About St. Joe
The St. Joe Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate development, asset management, and operating company in Northwest Florida. It operates through three segments: Residential, Hospitality, and Commercial. The Residential segment engages in the development of communities into homesites for sale to homebuilders and on a limited basis to retail customers. This segment primarily sells developed homesites, completed homes, parcels of entitled or undeveloped land or homesites, and a homesite residual on homebuilder, as well as offers title insurance and marketing services. The Hospitality segment owns and operates a private membership club, golf courses, beach clubs, retail outlets, marinas, and other entertainment assets. This segment also engages in the hotel, food and beverage, and gulf-front vacation rental operations, as well as provides management services. The Commercial segment engages in leasing of commercial property, multi-family, a senior living community, and other assets. This segment is also involved in the planning, development, entitlement, management, and sale of commercial and rural land holdings for retail, office, hotel, senior living, multi-family, self-storage, and industrial uses; and grows and sells pulpwood, sawtimber, and other forest products. The company was incorporated in 1936 and is based in Panama City Beach, Florida.
About La Rosa
La Rosa Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates primarily in the residential real estate market in the United States. The company operates through five segments: Real Estate Brokerage Services (Residential), Franchising Services, Coaching Services, Property Management, and Real Estate Brokerage Services (Commercial). It delivers coaching services to its brokers and franchisee's brokers; and franchises real estate brokerage agencies. The company also engages in the residential and commercial real estate brokerage business; and property management services to owners of single-family residential properties. La Rosa Holdings Corp. was founded in 2004 and is based in Celebration, Florida.
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