Both Summit Hotel Properties Inc. (NYSE:INN) and Alexander & Baldwin Inc. (NYSE:ALEX) are Real Estate Development companies, competing one another. We will compare their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Summit Hotel Properties Inc.	567.27M	2.17	70.70M	0.68	16.80
Alexander & Baldwin Inc.	640.30M	2.69	71.40M	4.30	5.39

Table 1 demonstrates Summit Hotel Properties Inc. and Alexander & Baldwin Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation. Alexander & Baldwin Inc. is observed to has higher revenue and earnings than Summit Hotel Properties Inc. Currently more expensive of the two stocks is the business with a higher price-to-earnings ratio. Summit Hotel Properties Inc.’s presently higher price-to-earnings ratio makes it the more expensive of the two businesses.

Profitability

Table 2 hightlights the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of the two companies.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Summit Hotel Properties Inc.	12.46%	5.9%	3.2%
Alexander & Baldwin Inc.	-11.15%	0%	0%

Risk and Volatility

Summit Hotel Properties Inc.’s current beta is 1.44 and it happens to be 44.00% more volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, Alexander & Baldwin Inc.’s 42.00% volatility makes it more volatile than S&P 500, because of the 1.42 beta.

Dividends

Summit Hotel Properties Inc. pays out a $0.72 per share dividend on a yearly basis and it also offers 6.15% dividend yield. No dividend is paid out for Alexander & Baldwin Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

In next table is delivered Summit Hotel Properties Inc. and Alexander & Baldwin Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Summit Hotel Properties Inc.	1	0	2	2.67
Alexander & Baldwin Inc.	0	0	1	3.00

The consensus price target of Summit Hotel Properties Inc. is $13.75, with potential upside of 18.03%. Competitively the consensus price target of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. is $26, which is potential 9.01% upside. The results from earlier shows that analysts belief suggest that Summit Hotel Properties Inc. seems more appealing than Alexander & Baldwin Inc.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

Roughly 0% of Summit Hotel Properties Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 79.5% of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders held roughly 1% of Summit Hotel Properties Inc.’s shares. Comparatively, Alexander & Baldwin Inc. has 0.9% of it’s share held by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Summit Hotel Properties Inc.	-1.54%	2.86%	3.7%	-17.81%	-11.21%	18.09%
Alexander & Baldwin Inc.	-6.95%	0.56%	11.07%	-1.86%	0.3%	26.06%

For the past year Summit Hotel Properties Inc. has weaker performance than Alexander & Baldwin Inc.

Summary

On 9 of the 16 factors Summit Hotel Properties Inc. beats Alexander & Baldwin Inc.

Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. engages in the real estate, and materials and construction businesses in Hawaii. It operates in three segments: Commercial Real Estate; Land Operations; and Materials and Construction. The Commercial Real Estate segment owns, develops, operates, and manages retail, industrial, and office properties in Hawaii and on the Mainland, as well as leases urban land in Hawaii to third-party lessees. It operates 15 retail centers; 7 industrial assets; 7 office properties; and a portfolio of urban ground leases comprising 106 acres in Hawaii. The Land Operations segment includes planning, zoning, financing, constructing, purchasing, managing, selling, and investing in real property; leasing agricultural land; renewable energy activities, including investments in hydroelectric and solar facilities, and power purchase agreements; and diversified agribusiness. The Materials and Construction segment performs asphalt paving as prime contractor and subcontractor; imports and sells liquid asphalt; mines, processes, and sells basalt aggregate; produces and sells asphaltic and ready-mix concrete; sells various construction and traffic-control-related products; and manufactures and sells precast concrete products. The company was formerly known as A & B II, Inc. and changed its name to Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. in June 2012. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.