AMP vs. BEN, ARES, OWL, APO, BAM, TPG, CG, BX, KKR, and LYG
Should you be buying Ameriprise Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ameriprise Financial include Franklin Resources (BEN), Ares Management (ARES), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Apollo Global Management (APO), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), The Carlyle Group (CG), Blackstone (BX), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), and Lloyds Banking Group (LYG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Franklin Resources pays out 70.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameriprise Financial pays out 20.1% 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. Franklin Resources has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Ameriprise Financial has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
47.6% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 19.42% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 11.09%. Franklin Resources' return on equity of 75.97% beat Ameriprise Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Franklin Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Ameriprise Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Franklin Resources and 11 mentions for Ameriprise Financial. Franklin Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Ameriprise Financial's score of 0.71 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Resources. Franklin Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameriprise Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ameriprise Financial received 142 more outperform votes than Franklin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.88% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote while only 40.78% of users gave Franklin Resources an outperform vote.
Franklin Resources currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.38%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus price target of $450.88, indicating a potential upside of 4.27%. Given Ameriprise Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Franklin Resources is more favorable than Ameriprise Financial.
Franklin Resources has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Franklin Resources on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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