KKR vs. BX, APO, ARES, AMP, OWL, AMT, IBN, TD, PLD, and MMC
Should you be buying KKR & Co. Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KKR & Co. Inc. include Blackstone (BX), Apollo Global Management (APO), Ares Management (ARES), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), American Tower (AMT), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Prologis (PLD), and Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) and KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Blackstone presently has a consensus target price of $123.65, indicating a potential downside of 4.14%. KKR & Co. Inc. has a consensus target price of $94.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.29%. Given KKR & Co. Inc.'s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Blackstone is more favorable than KKR & Co. Inc..
KKR & Co. Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Blackstone. KKR & Co. Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blackstone has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR & Co. Inc. has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blackstone and Blackstone both had 27 articles in the media. KKR & Co. Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Blackstone's score of 0.53 indicating that Blackstone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.0% of Blackstone shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Blackstone shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Blackstone received 487 more outperform votes than KKR & Co. Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.59% of users gave Blackstone an outperform vote while only 63.13% of users gave KKR & Co. Inc. an outperform vote.
Blackstone has a net margin of 20.84% compared to Blackstone's net margin of 19.38%. KKR & Co. Inc.'s return on equity of 17.33% beat Blackstone's return on equity.
Blackstone pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. KKR & Co. Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Blackstone pays out 117.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. KKR & Co. Inc. pays out 15.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KKR & Co. Inc. has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Summary
Blackstone and KKR & Co. Inc. tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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