We recently published an article titled Why These 15 Real Estate Stocks Are Plunging In 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (NYSE:MLP) against the other real estate stocks.
The real estate market has been hit by a lot of bad news in the first three months of this year, and it looks like it will only get worse in the coming months. Mortgage rates have remained elevated and are a pain for buyers. The Federal Reserve holding higher for longer with very slowly moderating inflation is not going to solve that problem anytime soon.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR, noted that consumers are gradually adapting to a new normal of mortgage rates between 6% and 7%.
There’s a lot of uncertainty about where this market could go. Prices are still high, and the Trump administration may still force the Fed to push rates lower. On the other hand, the trade wars combined with an AI slowdown could knock the entire market down, and the real estate market could fall significantly in such a scenario.
Some real estate stocks have already started falling, and there’s a good chance that some of them are already below their intrinsic value.
Methodology
For this article, I screened the worst-performing real estate stocks year-to-date.
I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (see more details here).
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Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (NYSE:MLP)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 4
Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (NYSE:MLP) is a real estate company operating on Maui Island. It is very diversified across all real estate types and provides water utility services.
The stock is down significantly so far in 2025 as Maui Land & Pineapple announced a financial restatement on January 10, 2025. This raised a lot of concern among its investors since it disclosed errors in its financial reporting that required adjustments to prior periods.
The broader stock market being down has also hurt the stock a lot.
Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (NYSE:MLP) stock is down 16.20% year-to-date.
Overall MLP ranks 6th on our list of the real estate stocks that are plunging in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of MLP as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than MLP but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
