Contrasting St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) & Cyrela Brazil Realty (OTCMKTS:CYRBY)

Profitability

This table compares St. Joe and Cyrela Brazil Realty’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
St. Joe	19.39%	11.19%	5.35%
Cyrela Brazil Realty	19.65%	16.95%	7.90%

Dividends

St. Joe pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cyrela Brazil Realty pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. St. Joe pays out 39.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cyrela Brazil Realty pays out 18.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. St. Joe has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Cyrela Brazil Realty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

86.7% of St. Joe shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

St. Joe has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cyrela Brazil Realty has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares St. Joe and Cyrela Brazil Realty”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
St. Joe	$402.70 million	7.18	$74.19 million	$1.42	35.16
Cyrela Brazil Realty	$1.48 billion	1.17	$305.72 million	$0.80	5.64

Cyrela Brazil Realty has higher revenue and earnings than St. Joe. Cyrela Brazil Realty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than St. Joe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of 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 Cyrela Brazil Realty

Cyrela Brazil Realty S.A. Empreendimentos e Participações develops and constructs residential properties in Brazil. It also provides real estate services, such as construction management and technical consultancy services. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.