Comparing Linkhome (NASDAQ:LHAI) and AMREP (NYSE:AXR)

AMREP (NYSE:AXR) and Linkhome (NASDAQ:LHAI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for AMREP and Linkhome, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AMREP	0	2	0	0	2.00
Linkhome	1	0	0	0	1.00

Institutional and Insider Ownership

59.9% of AMREP shares are held by institutional investors. 37.4% of AMREP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Linkhome shares are held 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 AMREP and Linkhome’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AMREP	19.47%	7.47%	7.23%
Linkhome	-2.83%	-7.86%	-6.68%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AMREP and Linkhome”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AMREP	$52.85 million	2.36	$10.29 million	$1.90	12.33
Linkhome	$20.99 million	0.67	$70,000.00	($0.03)	-28.31

AMREP has higher revenue and earnings than Linkhome. Linkhome is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMREP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

AMREP beats Linkhome on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AMREP

AMREP Corporation, through its subsidiaries, primarily engages in the real estate business. The company operates through two segments, Land Development and Homebuilding. It sells developed and undeveloped lots to homebuilders, commercial and industrial property developers, and others. In addition, the company owns mineral interests covering an area of approximately 55,000 surface acres of land in Sandoval County, New Mexico; and owns oil, gas, and minerals and mineral interests covering an area of approximately 147 surface acres of land in Brighton, Colorado. Further, the company focuses on selling single-family detached homes and attached homes. As of April 30, 2023, it owned approximately 17,000 acres in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The company owns an approximately 160-acre property in Brighton, Colorado. AMREP Corporation was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

About Linkhome

Linkhome is an artificial intelligence-driven property technology company. By using HomeGPT, a Linkhome-developed real estate artificial intelligence model, combined with financial innovation and in conjunction with our dedicated team of agents, we have made significant and cost-effective improvements to the business model of buying and selling homes. Through our subsidiaries, we operate an artificial intelligence real estate platform with the goal of providing customers with end-to-end real estate solutions and services, initially comprising real estate brokerage services, Cash Offer, and other services like property rental management and home renovation. In the future, we plan to expand our offerings to include mortgage services, home insurance and escrow services. Our mission is to redefine the real estate experience to be efficient and affordable for all consumers through artificial intelligence. Our vision is to help everyone own their home and achieve the dream of homeownership. Since the formation of our subsidiary, Linkhome Realty, in 2021 and the commencement of our operational endeavors, our platform has facilitated an aggregate gross total value of more than $150,000,000 of agent brokerage transactions as of June 30, 2024. Our platform, which is presently only active in California, supports a growing network of users looking to list and search for properties online, seeking information on property transactions and other value-added services, through the comprehensive property-related solutions and services available on our platform. Over the past three years, customers have shown their desire for our artificial intelligence, financial innovation and real estate solutions. In 2023, our total transaction volume for the real estate agency amounted to $15,438,435 as compared to $28,243,875 in 2022, and our total transaction volume for the real estate agency amounted to $2,183,832 in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to $12,090,829 in the first quarter of 2024. As of June 15, 2024, our platform, which aggregates listings from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service (the “CRMLS”), boasted more than 34,798 active listings for residential properties available for sale or rent. Users obtain home-buying information from our platform and consult with our AI tool, HomeGPT, for interactive home-buying advice. We have found that our users are more likely to buy and sell properties using the Company and select us for their real estate service needs. More importantly, we believe that we have just scratched the surface in the potential development of artificial intelligence as used in real estate and we believe artificial intelligence will transform the real estate market. Over the coming years, we plan on vigorously developing the artificial intelligence real estate model HomeGPT, increasing our market share, launching our platform in dozens of cities, and expanding our products and services in order to leverage artificial intelligence so that it becomes a one-stop shop for buyers and sellers of residential real estate. Our goal is to build the largest, most trusted platform for residential real estate and empower millions of Americans with the freedom to more easily purchase homes. We have developed our artificial intelligence and integrated it with fintech to expand beyond the traditional real estate search and transaction process through our Cash Offer product. Cash Offer integrates fintech to help users buy and sell properties more efficiently, by analyzing market trends, property valuations and buyer preferences, our AI tools can help users find matching properties more quickly and provide purchase recommendations. We think our Cash Offer product can help users make an offer of their ideal properties more efficiently, significantly enhancing the success rate of home purchases. Cash Offer is a tool that was developed to help address our customers’ needs. In the Southern California market that we serve, there is often intense competition, buyers are in the painful process of competing for homes, and we have developed Cash Offer to offer a solution by providing full cash payments, helping to make offers more attractive and stand out among numerous competitors. Linkhome accomplishes this by purchasing the target property for cash, assuming ownership of the property, and then selling the property to the customer after the customer has secured the necessary financing from their lender. In 2023, when we rolled out the Cash Offer tool, we completed one transaction, with Haiyan Ma, a related party who is a beneficial owner of 12.41% of our voting securities, that represented 77% of our annual revenue for that year. As of the date of this offering, the Company has only entered Cash Offer transactions with a few select clients. Upon completion of this offering, we believe the Company will have sufficient capital on hand to expand this service. We believe that the combination of artificial intelligence with fintech could be a catalyst for the growth of our Company and could serve to transform the real estate industry. Our principal executive offices are located in Irvine, CA.