HLNE vs. AMG, LM, LAZ, OWL, BAM, CG, TPG, MORN, BEN, and HLI
Should you be buying Hamilton Lane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hamilton Lane include Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Legg Mason (LM), Lazard (LAZ), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), and Houlihan Lokey (HLI).
Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE:AMG) and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Affiliated Managers Group has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hamilton Lane has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.3% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Hamilton Lane shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Hamilton Lane shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Affiliated Managers Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hamilton Lane. Affiliated Managers Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hamilton Lane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Affiliated Managers Group has a net margin of 33.74% compared to Affiliated Managers Group's net margin of 25.43%. Affiliated Managers Group's return on equity of 31.07% beat Hamilton Lane's return on equity.
Affiliated Managers Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Hamilton Lane pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Affiliated Managers Group pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hamilton Lane pays out 48.2% 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. Hamilton Lane has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Hamilton Lane is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Affiliated Managers Group received 371 more outperform votes than Hamilton Lane when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.12% of users gave Affiliated Managers Group an outperform vote while only 61.36% of users gave Hamilton Lane an outperform vote.
Affiliated Managers Group presently has a consensus target price of $173.80, suggesting a potential upside of 11.68%. Hamilton Lane has a consensus target price of $114.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Given Hamilton Lane's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Affiliated Managers Group is more favorable than Hamilton Lane.
In the previous week, Hamilton Lane had 1 more articles in the media than Affiliated Managers Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Hamilton Lane and 6 mentions for Affiliated Managers Group. Hamilton Lane's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Affiliated Managers Group's score of 1.11 indicating that Affiliated Managers Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Affiliated Managers Group beats Hamilton Lane on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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