Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, multi-market transportation and real estate company Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE: ALEX ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Alexander & Baldwin's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Alexander & Baldwin facts
| Headquarters (founded) |
Honolulu (1870) |
| Market Cap |
$1.67 billion |
| Industry |
Shipping |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$1.8 billion |
| Management |
CEO Stanley Kuriyama (since 2010)
CFO Christopher Benjamin (since 2004) |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
3.2% |
| Cash / Debt |
$15 million / $556 million |
| Dividend Yield |
3.2% |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 86% of the 144 members who have rated Alexander & Baldwin believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include udflyerz and All-Star TMFDeej, who is ranked in the top 1% of our community.
A few months ago, udflyerz tapped Alexander & Baldwin as a tempting value pick:
Hawaiian property on the books at a fraction of real value. [P]ossible chance to unlock value of land through growing sugarcane for ethanol or other green opportunities. [S]hipping business will make a comeback too eventually.
In fact, Alexander & Baldwin currently sports a cheapish price-to-book ratio of 1.5. That represents a clear discount to industry peers such as C.H. Robinson (Nasdaq: CHRW ) (8.8), Hub Group (Nasdaq: HUBG ) (3.0), and St. Joe (NYSE: JOE ) (1.8).
CAPS All-Star TMFDeej elaborates on the borderline bargain opportunity:
I was starting to sniff around Alexander & Baldwin (ALEX) as a potential investment right before Bill Ackman announced his large stake in the company. Not surprisingly, that news caused this small company's stock to skyrocket nearly 20% and more from there. After the recent market implosion ALEX is approaching pre-Ackman announcement levels. ... I came close to buying some in real-life, but I'm not all that optimistic about the economy right now and ALEX's fortunes are a little too tied to shipping for my taste.
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