Analyzing Strategic Global Investments (OTCMKTS:STBV) & St. Joe (NYSE:JOE)

St. Joe (NYSE:JOE) and Strategic Global Investments (OTCMKTS:STBV) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares St. Joe and Strategic Global Investments”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	8.71	$74.19 million	$1.80	33.73
Strategic Global Investments	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

St. Joe has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Global Investments.

Profitability

This table compares St. Joe and Strategic Global Investments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
St. Joe	21.40%	13.96%	6.78%
Strategic Global Investments	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for St. Joe and Strategic Global Investments, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
St. Joe	0	0	1	0	3.00
Strategic Global Investments	0	0	0	0	0.00

Institutional & Insider Ownership

86.7% of St. Joe shares are held by institutional investors. 38.8% of St. Joe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 65.5% of Strategic Global Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

St. Joe beats Strategic Global Investments on 7 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 Strategic Global Investments

Strategic Global Investments, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency/blockchain ICO company. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Branson, Missouri.