La Rosa (NASDAQ:LRHC – Get Free Report) and St. Joe (NYSE:JOE – 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 profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares La Rosa and St. Joe”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| La Rosa | $62.27 million | 0.01 | -$30.55 million | ($3,705.40) | -0.00 |
| St. Joe | $513.20 million | 7.78 | $115.63 million | $2.12 | 33.32 |
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.
Volatility & Risk
La Rosa has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. Joe has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for La Rosa and St. Joe, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| La Rosa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| St. Joe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
7.6% of La Rosa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. 23.8% of La Rosa shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of St. Joe shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares La Rosa and St. Joe’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| La Rosa | -46.38% | -3,087.05% | -149.58% |
| St. Joe | 22.32% | 15.66% | 8.02% |
Summary
St. Joe beats La Rosa on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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