Head-To-Head Comparison: Maui Land & Pineapple (NYSE:MLP) and reAlpha Tech (NASDAQ:AIRE)

Maui Land & Pineapple (NYSE:MLP) and reAlpha Tech (NASDAQ:AIRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Maui Land & Pineapple and reAlpha Tech, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maui Land & Pineapple	0	0	0	0	0.00
reAlpha Tech	0	0	1	0	3.00

reAlpha Tech has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.16%. Given reAlpha Tech’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe reAlpha Tech is more favorable than Maui Land & Pineapple.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Maui Land & Pineapple and reAlpha Tech”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maui Land & Pineapple	$12.20 million	33.76	-$3.08 million	($0.23)	-91.17
reAlpha Tech	$321,095.00	324.25	N/A	N/A	N/A

reAlpha Tech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maui Land & Pineapple.

Volatility and Risk

Maui Land & Pineapple has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, reAlpha Tech has a beta of -8.06, meaning that its share price is 906% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

24.5% of Maui Land & Pineapple shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of reAlpha Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.7% of Maui Land & Pineapple shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.9% of reAlpha Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Maui Land & Pineapple and reAlpha Tech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maui Land & Pineapple	-40.09%	-14.23%	-11.37%
reAlpha Tech	-2,035.17%	-45.22%	-36.74%

Summary

Maui Land & Pineapple beats reAlpha Tech on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Maui Land & Pineapple

Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the planning, managing, developing, and selling residential, resort, commercial, agricultural, and industrial real estate properties in the United States. It operates through Land Development & Sales, Leasing, and Resort Amenities segments. The Real Estate segment is involved in the land planning and entitlement; and sale of real estate inventory. The Leasing segment leases commercial, agricultural, and industrial land and properties; and licenses its registered trademarks and trade names, as well as provides stewardship and conservation services. This segment also manages ditches, reservoirs, and well systems that provide potable and non-potable water to West and Upcountry Maui areas. The Resort Amenities segment manages the operations of the Kapalua Club, a private non-equity club program that provides its members special programs, access, and other privileges at certain amenities at the Kapalua Resort. It owns approximately 22,300 acres of land and 268,000 square feet of commercial property on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1909 and is based in Lahaina, Hawaii.

About reAlpha Tech

reAlpha Tech Corp., a real estate technology company, commercializes artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technologies. The company operates in two segments, Platform Services and Rental Business. The company offers and develops AI-based products and services to customers in the real-estate industry. These include reAlpha BRAIN, which utilizes a natural language processing program to scan through property data and choose the ones with a higher than expected industry standard return on investment; reAlpha HUMINT, which allows analysts to input qualitative features about a property and factor it into property evaluation; GENA to generate home descriptions; AIRE, a web-based AI application that provides data and insights about the real estate market; and reAlpha App, which allows syndicate members to acquire equity interests in the syndication LLC. It also leases short-term rental properties; and provides technical support services. The company was formerly known as eAlpha Asset Management, Inc. and changed its name to reAlpha Tech Corp. in March 2023. reAlpha Tech Corp. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ohio.