BGC vs. SF, EVR, LAZ, PIPR, OPY, FBRC, MS, GS, SCHW, and RJF
Should you be buying BGC Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BGC Group include Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), Lazard (LAZ), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Oppenheimer (OPY), FBR & Co. (FBRC), Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), and Raymond James (RJF). These companies are all part of the "investment banking & brokerage" industry.
Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) and BGC Group (NASDAQ:BGC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
BGC Group received 52 more outperform votes than Stifel Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.74% of users gave BGC Group an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Stifel Financial an outperform vote.
Stifel Financial has higher revenue and earnings than BGC Group. Stifel Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BGC Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stifel Financial has a net margin of 11.34% compared to Stifel Financial's net margin of 3.16%. Stifel Financial's return on equity of 47.67% beat BGC Group's return on equity.
Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. BGC Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Stifel Financial pays out 38.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BGC Group pays out 66.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Stifel Financial has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and BGC Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Stifel Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Stifel Financial had 6 more articles in the media than BGC Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Stifel Financial and 1 mentions for BGC Group. Stifel Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat BGC Group's score of 0.93 indicating that BGC Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stifel Financial presently has a consensus target price of $84.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.57%. Given BGC Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stifel Financial is more favorable than BGC Group.
Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BGC Group has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of BGC Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.9% of BGC Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Stifel Financial beats BGC Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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