ACRO (OTCMKTS:TACI) & St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) Critical Survey

St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and ACRO (OTCMKTS:TACI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for St. Joe and ACRO, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
St. Joe	0	1	0	0	2.00
ACRO	0	0	0	0	0.00

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
St. Joe	21.40%	14.10%	6.77%
ACRO	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. 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 is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares St. Joe and ACRO”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
St. Joe	$488.69 million	7.12	$74.19 million	$1.80	33.48
ACRO	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

St. Joe has higher revenue and earnings than ACRO.

Risk & Volatility

St. Joe has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACRO has a beta of -231.69, meaning that its share price is 23,269% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

St. Joe beats ACRO on 8 of the 8 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 ACRO

Transatlantic Capital Inc. does not have significant operations. It intends to identify opportunities in commercial properties in the retail, office, and industrial sectors throughout the United States and Canada. The company was formerly known as ACRO Inc. and changed its name to Transatlantic Capital Inc. in May 2014. Transatlantic Capital Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Vallejo, California.TransAtlantic Capital Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NFA Securitiers L3C.