VCTR vs. MC, PJT, AMK, VRTS, MORN, BEN, HLI, EVR, IVZ, and HLNE
Should you be buying Victory Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Victory Capital include Moelis & Company (MC), PJT Partners (PJT), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), and Hamilton Lane (HLNE). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Moelis & Company (NYSE:MC) and Victory Capital (NASDAQ:VCTR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Moelis & Company received 111 more outperform votes than Victory Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.85% of users gave Moelis & Company an outperform vote while only 56.81% of users gave Victory Capital an outperform vote.
Victory Capital has a net margin of 26.28% compared to Victory Capital's net margin of -1.33%. Moelis & Company's return on equity of 29.23% beat Victory Capital's return on equity.
Moelis & Company has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Victory Capital has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Moelis & Company pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Victory Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Moelis & Company pays out -1,263.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Victory Capital pays out 41.1% 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. Victory Capital has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Moelis & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Victory Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Moelis & Company. Moelis & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Victory Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.5% of Moelis & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.7% of Victory Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Moelis & Company shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Victory Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Moelis & Company currently has a consensus price target of $50.80, indicating a potential downside of 12.29%. Victory Capital has a consensus price target of $49.57, indicating a potential downside of 7.36%. Given Moelis & Company's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Victory Capital is more favorable than Moelis & Company.
In the previous week, Victory Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Moelis & Company. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Victory Capital and 1 mentions for Moelis & Company. Moelis & Company's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Victory Capital's score of 1.20 indicating that Victory Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Victory Capital beats Moelis & Company on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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