Z vs. UNM, JEF, REXR, NLY, BXP, JLL, HLI, EWBC, BSAC, and SEIC
Should you be buying Zillow Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zillow Group include Unum Group (UNM), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Boston Properties (BXP), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and SEI Investments (SEIC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Unum Group has higher revenue and earnings than Zillow Group. Zillow Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unum Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zillow Group presently has a consensus target price of $56.20, suggesting a potential upside of 35.36%. Unum Group has a consensus target price of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 8.44%. Given Zillow Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Zillow Group is more favorable than Unum Group.
In the previous week, Zillow Group had 23 more articles in the media than Unum Group. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Zillow Group and 8 mentions for Unum Group. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Zillow Group's score of -0.04 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zillow Group has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Unum Group received 33 more outperform votes than Zillow Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.94% of users gave Zillow Group an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
Unum Group has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Zillow Group's net margin of -7.93%. Unum Group's return on equity of 16.02% beat Zillow Group's return on equity.
71.0% of Zillow Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are held by institutional investors. 23.8% of Zillow Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Unum Group beats Zillow Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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