UPBD vs. AL, MGRC, PRG, CTOS, AAN, KPLT, FPAY, URI, AER, and IVZ
Should you be buying Upbound Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Upbound Group include Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), PROG (PRG), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Aaron's (AAN), Katapult (KPLT), FlexShopper (FPAY), United Rentals (URI), AerCap (AER), and Invesco (IVZ).
Air Lease (NYSE:AL) and Upbound Group (NASDAQ:UPBD) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Air Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Upbound Group. Upbound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Lease has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Upbound Group has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Lease currently has a consensus price target of $53.80, suggesting a potential upside of 17.11%. Upbound Group has a consensus price target of $39.14, suggesting a potential upside of 19.37%. Given Air Lease's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Upbound Group is more favorable than Air Lease.
Air Lease received 572 more outperform votes than Upbound Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.22% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Upbound Group an outperform vote.
94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Upbound Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Air Lease shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Upbound Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Upbound Group had 4 more articles in the media than Air Lease. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Upbound Group and 6 mentions for Air Lease. Upbound Group's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Air Lease's score of 0.70 indicating that Air Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Air Lease has a net margin of 21.89% compared to Air Lease's net margin of -0.61%. Air Lease's return on equity of 33.40% beat Upbound Group's return on equity.
Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Upbound Group pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Air Lease pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Upbound Group pays out -321.7% 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. Upbound Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Upbound Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Upbound Group beats Air Lease on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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